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Abe vows to work together with Xi to promote ties

June 11, 2019

Tokyo–Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Tuesday he is willing to work together with Chinese President Xi Jinping to open a new era for bilateral relations. Abe made the comments during talks with new Chinese Ambassador to Japan Kong Xuanyou

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EXCLUSIVE: U.S. aims to keep wider range of tariffs with Japan

June 10, 2019

Tokyo–The United States aims to keep tariffs on a wider range of industrial products by changing the definition of automotive parts in trade negotiations with Japan, Jiji Press learned Monday. This adds to headaches for Japan, which demands that Washington

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EXCLUSIVE: Japan, France agree on aircraft parts partnership

June 10, 2019

Tokyo–The Japanese and French governments have agreed to strengthen private-sector partnerships for the production of engines, seats and other airplane equipment, informed sources told Jiji Press on Monday. Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the French Civil Aviation

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Abe apologizes for controversial FSA report on aging

June 10, 2019

Tokyo–Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe apologized Monday for a controversial Financial Services Agency report emphasizing that an average elderly couple needs to build up 20 million yen in life savings. Expressions used in the report were “inaccurate and misleading,” Abe

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Japan, Switzerland discuss sanctions against N. Korea

June 10, 2019

Tokyo-Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and visiting Swiss President Ueli Maurer on Monday affirmed the need to fully implement U.N. Security Council sanctions resolutions against North Korea over its nuclear and missile development. At their meeting, held at the prime

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Japan highlights G-20 principles for quality infrastructure investment

June 10, 2019

Fukuoka–Japan sees the Group of 20 advanced and emerging economies’ approval of principles for high-quality infrastructure investment as a major achievement at a meeting of G-20 finance ministers and central bank chiefs in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka over

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Japan, Hong Kong, China politics: Extradition protest

June 10, 2019

Protesters attend a rally against Hong Kong’s controversial extradition law proposal near the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region’s Economic and Trade Office in Tokyo on June 9, 2019. – The city’s pro-Beijing government is pushing a bill through the legislature

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Abe hails enhanced ties with Saudi Arabia

June 10, 2019

Tokyo–Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe welcomed enhanced ties with Saudi Arabia during talks with Mosaad Mohammed Aiban, the Middle Eastern country’s minister of state, in Tokyo on Monday. Japan and Saudi Arabia have a long history of friendly ties and

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