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Japan’s Fujita comes 2nd in International Tchaikovsky Competition

June 28, 2019

Tokyo–Mao Fujita, a 20-year-old Japanese college student, has come second in the piano category of the 16th International Tchaikovsky Competition, one of the world’s most prestigious music contests. The result was announced Thursday in Russia, where the event is being

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U.S. Senate sees Japan as contributing to security ties

June 28, 2019

Washington–The U.S. Senate on Thursday passed a bill that clearly recognizes Japan’s contributions made under the bilateral security alliance. The fiscal 2020 defense authorization bill, which sets an outline of the U.S. defense budget, ran counter to U.S. President Donald

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G-20 Summit starts in Osaka; trade seen high on agenda

June 28, 2019

By Hiroki Kosuge Osaka–The Group of 20 advanced and emerging economies kicked off their two-day summit in the western Japan city of Osaka on Friday. A focal point is whether and to what extent the G-20 leaders will be able

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Abe, Trump agree to bolster alliance, speed up trade talks

June 28, 2019

Osaka, June 28 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump agreed on Friday to further strengthen the two countries’ security alliance and speed up talks on concluding a bilateral trade pact. At a meeting held in

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Some 2,000 doctors work unpaid at university hospitals in Japan

June 28, 2019

Tokyo–At least some 2,000 doctors at 50 university hospitals in Japan were seeing patients without getting paid as of September last year, an education ministry survey showed Friday. According to the survey, 27 university hospitals did not pay salaries at

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Abe, Trump agree to accelerate Japan-U.S. trade talks

June 28, 2019

Osaka–Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump agreed on Friday to accelerate talks on concluding a bilateral trade pact. At the meeting, held in Osaka ahead of the start of the Group of 20 summit in the

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No Abe-Moon meeting during G-20 Summit: S. Korean Official

June 25, 2019

Seoul–There would be no separate meeting between Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Moon Jae-in during the two-day Group of 20 summit starting in Osaka Friday, a senior Blue House official said Tuesday. The official of the

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Abe Cabinet survives no-confidence motion

June 25, 2019

Tokyo–Japan’s House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the Diet, the country’s parliament, voted down a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s cabinet on Tuesday. The focus in the Japanese political scene will shift to a triennial election for

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