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Japan, US, Australia, India tackle Abe’s Indo-Pacific strategy

November 12, 2017

TOKYO- Bureau-chief-level officials from Japan, the United States, Australia and India held talks in Manila on Sunday on an Indo-Pacific strategy proposed by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japan’s Foreign Ministry said the same day. The officials confirmed cooperation in

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TEPCO starts to install fuel-removing device at Fukushima n-plant

November 12, 2017

Fukushima- Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. started on Sunday work to install equipment to be used for removing fuel from the storage pool at a reactor at its disaster-crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant in northeastern Japan. The equipment,

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Abe, Xi agree on early Japan-China-S. Korea summit

November 12, 2017

Da Nang, Vietnam- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed Saturday to realize a trilateral summit among their countries plus South Korea as early as possible. Meeting in Danang, central Vietnam, Abe and Xi also reaffirmed

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Manila, Tokyo to seal 1.5 billion yen grants for Coast Guard, Marawi rehab

November 12, 2017

The Philippine and Japanese governments will soon sign the exchange of notes on projects for rehabilitating Marawi City and strengthening maritime safety capability of the Philippine Coast Guard, according to the Department of Finance (DOF). In a report to Finance

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Military drill

November 12, 2017

TOKYO- This undated handout photo obtained from the US Navy on November 12, 2017 shows the USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) and USS Nimitz (CVN 68) Strike Groups transitting the Western Pacific with ships from

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20 items suspended in new 11-member TPP

November 11, 2017

DA NANG, VIETNAM- Japan and 10 other countries announced Saturday a new Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade deal, which calls for 20 of the provisions included in the original 12-member TPP to be frozen until the United States’ possible return to

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Japan to make installation of hydrogen stations easier

November 11, 2017

TOKYO- Tokyo, Nov. 11 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Fire and Disaster Management Agency plans to make the installation of hydrogen filling stations easier by revising ordinances related to the fire service law in fiscal 2018, in order to help promote the use

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EU official eyeing final EPA accord with Japan by year-end

November 11, 2017

BRUSSELS- Senior European Union official Cecilia Malmstrom reconfirmed the EU’s intention on Friday to reach a final accord on its economic partnership agreement with Japan by year-end. At a press conference, the European commissioner for trade said she believes that

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