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Japan’s Sei Whale Meat Sales Judged as Violating Conservation Treaty

October 3, 2018

Sochi, Russia- An international conservation committee ruled on Tuesday that Japan’s domestic commercial distribution of meat of sei whales caught for scientific purposes violates the so-called Washington Convention, advising the country take corrective steps. The convention, formally called the Convention

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After elections, Duterte mulling to ask Congress to totally ban mining

October 3, 2018

President Rodrigo Duterte said he would try to ask Congress to pass a law to totally ban mining after the May 2019 elections. In a speech in Catarman, Samar on Tuesday, Duterte again lamented that the damage to the people

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Abe Seeks Disaster-Linked Extra Budgets

October 3, 2018

Tokyo- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe instructed his government to draw up extra budgets for fiscal 2018 in the first meeting of his new cabinet launched on Tuesday. The government is preparing to compile two supplementary budgets. One will focus

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Osaka Severs Sister-City Ties with San Francisco over Statue

October 3, 2018

Osaka- The city government of Osaka said Tuesday that it has sent a document to officially end its 61-year-old sister-city ties with San Francisco over a statue in the U.S. city symbolizing the issue of “comfort women” for Japanese soldiers

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Profiles of New Ministers for Japan PM Abe’s 4th Cabinet II

October 3, 2018

Takamori Yoshikawa, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Yoshikawa, 67, was first elected to the Lower House in 1996, after serving as a member of the Hokkaido prefectural assembly and working as a secretary to late former Foreign Minister Iichiro Hatoyama

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Japan, Mekong Countries to Urge N. Korea to Scrap Weapons of Mass Destruction

October 3, 2018

Bangkok- Japan and five Mekong River basin countries are expected to urge North Korea next week to take steps to dismantle all weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles in a complete, verifiable and irreversible manner, informed sources said Tuesday.

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Biz Leaders Seek Decisive Action by Abe’s New Cabinet

October 3, 2018

Tokyo- Japanese business leaders on Tuesday urged the new cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to decisively tackle economic challenges facing the country. “I want the Abe government to raise the consumption tax rate to 10 pct without fail” in

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Abe Forms New Cabinet, Prioritizing Stability for Election

October 2, 2018

Tokyo- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe launched his new cabinet on Tuesday, picking many new ministers from Liberal Democratic Party factions that supported his winning of a third straight and final three-year term as the ruling party’s president in an

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