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Japan to consider Hormuz Blockade Responses: Kono

May 14, 2019

Tokyo-Japan will consider ways to respond to Iran potentially closing off the Strat of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf amid US-Iran tensions, Foreign Minister Taro Kono said Tuesday. “We want to consider seriously how to Respond If A Blockade Actually

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Tokyo’s Shibuya to ban street drinking during Halloween

May 14, 2019

Tokyo–Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward plans to ban the consumption of alcohol in streets and parks near Shibuya Station during the Halloween period, officials said. A related ordinance will be submitted to the ward assembly in June, and the ward aims to

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Trump to meet with Japanese abductee families

May 14, 2019

Tokyo–U.S. President Donald Trump will meet with family members of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea decades ago during his visit to Japan from May 25, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Tuesday. “Japan and the United States will work

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Japanese, Russian governors hold 1st meeting in 9 years

May 14, 2019

Moscow–Governors from Japanese prefectures and Russian provinces held talks in Moscow on Monday for the first time in nine years to discuss regional cooperation and exchanges between the two countries. From Japan, the governors of Hokkaido, Ibaraki, Saitama, Toyama, Gifu,

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Suga declines to clarify whether regret over N. Korea missiles shared with pence

May 13, 2019

Tokyo–Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga stopped short of clarifying Monday whether he and U.S. Vice President Mike Pence had shared the view that North Korea’s recent firing of short-range ballistic missiles was extremely regrettable. “At the meeting, we affirmed

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Japan protests S. Korea’s survey plans near Takeshima: Suga

May 13, 2019

Tokyo–Japan has strongly protested against South Korean ocean survey plans covering areas near disputed islands, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Monday. The national Korea Hydrographic and Oceanographic Agency started to post plans on such surveys using drones around

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Japan to continue active participation in NPT talks: Suga

May 13, 2019

Tokyo–Japan will continue to actively participate in discussions on nuclear disarmament, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Monday. Suga’s comment came after the preparatory committee for the 2020 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) review conference failed to come up with recommendations

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U.N. Climate panel releases new guidelines to calculate emissions

May 13, 2019

Kyoto–A U.N. climate panel on Monday released new guidelines to help countries calculate their greenhouse gas emissions more accurately. The guidelines were adopted at a general meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that ended in the western Japan

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