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Japan under pressure after China bans ivory trade

January 17, 2018

Beijing/Tokyo- Japan is under growing pressure to address illegal ivory exports from the country, after China, once the world’s largest ivory market, declared a total ban on domestic ivory trade late last year. The Chinese government made the decision in

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Ministers from 20 nations agree to keep pressuring N. Korea

January 17, 2018

Vancouver, Canada- Foreign ministers from Japan, the United States, South Korea, Canada and 16 other countries agreed on Tuesday to keep increasing pressure on North Korea until it changes course toward denuclearizing itself. At their meeting in Vancouver, the ministers,

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Kono rejects additional steps on comfort women issue

January 17, 2018

Vancouver, Canada- Foreign Minister Taro Kono clarified Tuesday Japan’s rejection of additional measures proposed by South Korea in its new policy on the 2015 bilateral agreement to resolve the issue of so-called comfort women. Japan cannot accept any request at

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Producer prices rose 2.4% in 2017

January 16, 2018

Tokyo- Japan’s producer price index in 2017 rose 2.4 percent from the previous year, up for the first time in three years, the Bank of Japan said Tuesday. The index stood at 98.8 against 100 for the base year of

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Russia reiterates concern over Japan’s plan to introduce Aegis Ashore

January 16, 2018

Moscow- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday reiterated his country’s concern over the Japanese government’s recent decision to introduce the Aegis Ashore land-based ballistic missile defense system from the United States. Lavrov told a press conference that the Japanese

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DP, Party of Hope agree to form parliamentary group

January 16, 2018

Tokyo- Senior officials from the Democratic Party and the Party of Hope, both Japanese opposition parties, reached a formal agreement Monday to form a joint parliamentary group at both chambers of parliament. The two parties aim to complete internal procedures

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ICAN leader visits Hiroshima peace park, lays wreath

January 16, 2018

Hiroshima- Beatrice Fihn, leader of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, or ICAN, on Monday visited Hiroshima, one of the two Japanese cities destroyed in the U.S. atomic bombing in 1945. Fihn, executive director of the group, the winner

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Suspect in Zama murders served 5th arrest warrant

January 16, 2018

Tokyo- Police on Tuesday served a fifth arrest warrant on Takahiro Shiraishi, first held for alleged corpse abandonment in a high-profile case involving nine dismembered bodies, this time for allegedly murdering a 20-year-old man, who was one of the victims.

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