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Posted by: Billy Bob Joe on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 07:27 AM
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This is the first of three postwar60 news focus stories on postwar politics, economy
(Kyodo) _ In August 1972, a month after Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka assumed office, he launched a private advisory panel to study how Japan should be remodeled. It was created based on Tanaka's best-selling book, "Nihon-Retto Kaizo-Ron (Plan to Remodel the Japanese Archipelago)," which proposed the industrialization of farming villages by connecting local areas with major cities via highway networks. "I thought it was 'Ishiharaism,'" said Kunitaro Takeda, 92, who had been a member of the advisory body and an executive director of the New Agricultural Policy Research Institute.
He referred to the philosophy of Kanji Ishihara (1889-1949), an army colonel who masterminded the Manchurian Incident in 1931 to justify the invasion of China. Takeda worked for an experimental farm in Manchuria but was locally drafted into the army and returned to Japan in 1946, one year after Japan's defeat in World War II.
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Posted by: Billy Bob Joe on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 07:26 AM
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(Kyodo) _ Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and visiting Pakistani Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri met on Tuesday and agreed to boost bilateral ties, Japanese officials said. Kasuri expressed willingness to boost bilateral relations with Japan and presented Koizumi with Pakistani postage stamps issued to mark the 50th anniversary of Japan's foreign aid to the country, the officials said.
Kasuri also praised Japan's efforts to help Afghanistan rebuild and stabilize itself, including $5 billion in aid Japan has pledged, saying issues related to Afghanistan directly affect neighboring Pakistan.
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Posted by: Billy Bob Joe on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 07:26 AM
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(Kyodo) _ North Korean leader Kim Jong Il told a Chinese official the resumption of six-nation talks on settling the nuclear crisis on the Korean peninsula depends on not only the U.S. position but also Japan' position on abduction issues, Itar-Tass news agency reported Tuesday. Quoting a source close to the Chinese Embassy, the news agency said in a dispatch from Pyongyang that Kim conveyed the message to Wang Jiarui, international department chief of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, in a meeting in Pyongyang on Monday.
During the meeting, Itar-Tass said, the North Korean leader noted that Tokyo had been creating serious problems hindering the resumption of the six-way talks because Tokyo still demands settlement of the problem connected with Japanese citizens kidnapped by North Korea more than 25 years ago. North Korea has declared the issue fully settled and reiterated that Pyongyang does not intend to address the matter again.
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Posted by: Billy Bob Joe on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 12:05 AM
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TOKYO : Japan's Crown Prince Naruhito has apologised for stirring the royal family with a complaint about treatment of his wife, a former diplomat under pressure to produce a male heir. The apology was part of remarks released on his 45th birthday Wednesday as Crown Princess Masako recovers from stress-induced illness and the nation considers allowing a female to ascend the world's oldest monarchy.
Japan's imperial household law only allows a male to assume the Chrysanthemum Throne, but no boy has been born to the cloistered family since 1965. Naruhito stunned the nation last May when he declared with rare candor that Masako's career and personality had been "denied" since she married him in 1993. The couple has only one child, three-year-old Princess Aiko.
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Posted by: Billy Bob Joe on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 01:29 PM
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TOKYO, (AFP) - Japan pressed North Korea to return to six-nation talks on its nuclear program with no conditions and said it was baffled by a Chinese report that Pyongyang had denied pulling out of dialogue. "They must respond to our calls and return to the talks without asking for conditions," Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura told reporters. "We would welcome it if they would return to six-way talks immediately," Machimura said. "We want them to take concrete actions."
The comment came after Chinese state media said North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il denied withdrawing from six-party talks on his country's nuclear drive and said they could resume "at any time" if conditions were right.
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Posted by: Billy Bob Joe on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 01:29 PM
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[World News]: TOKYO, Feb. 21 : Australia said Tuesday it would send 450 troops to protect members of the Japanese Self-Defense Force based in southern Iraq. The 500 Japanese troops have been in Iraq for the past year to provide humanitarian aid, but under the Japanese constitution, they are banned from using military force. As a result, the Japanese had been protected by Dutch troops, but the Netherlands will be pulling out of the country altogether by the end of this month.
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Posted by: Billy Bob Joe on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 12:16 AM
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(Kyodo) _ The government is stepping up its cultural diplomacy, which requires relatively little cost, amid a deteriorating fiscal situation that has stripped Japan of its position as the world's top provider of official development assistance (ODA). Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi inaugurated a private advisory council late last year to discuss how to promote cultural diplomacy, saying such efforts will improve recognition of Japan abroad and contribute to enhancing the safety of Japanese overseas.
The council, headed by Tamotsu Aoki, a professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, is expected to come out with a proposal in April, and new projects will begin in fiscal 2006. One of the key projects being studied is a Japanese version of the "artist in residence" system popular in Germany, France and the United States.
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Posted by: Billy Bob Joe on Monday, February 21, 2005 - 02:45 PM
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The Japanese parliament has decided to donate an extra $18.5 million to support the UN-backed trials of former Khmer Rouge leaders in Phnom Penh, the BBC reported on 10 February. Added to the $3 million already approved in 2004, Japan's pledge now totals $21.5 million. Last autumn, the Cambodian National Assembly ratified the accord signed with the United Nations to set up "extraordinary chambers" to try suspects of crimes committed between 1975 and 1979. The draft budget fixed by the UN totals $57 million for a three-year period. France, Great Britain and Australia have contributed about $7 million between them.
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Posted by: Billy Bob Joe on Monday, February 21, 2005 - 02:44 PM
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(Kyodo) _ The Japanese government has decided to no longer disclose specific information about people fleeing from North Korea to China and seek help from the Japanese Embassy in Beijing for asylum, Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Shotaro Yachi said Monday. "We won't make public how many people are waiting for the chance to leave (China) and how many people actually did so," Yachi told a press conference.
Since 2003, dozens of people barged into a Japanese school in Beijing apparently fleeing from the North and sought help for them to resettle in third countries, mostly South Korea, and stayed at the Japanese Embassy for a while. Tokyo made the latest decision due partly to concern that if it continues to make public the number of people who left the embassy, this could encourage potential asylum seekers to do the same, Yachi said.
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Posted by: Billy Bob Joe on Monday, February 21, 2005 - 02:44 PM
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(Kyodo) _ Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi reiterated Monday a call for a peaceful solution to cross-strait issues, following Beijing's protest against a Japan-U.S. security statement touching on the sensitive relations between China and Taiwan. "Our argument has been consistent," Koizumi said in reference to China's reaction. "There has been no change in our policy of seeking a peaceful solution."
The joint statement issued after top Japan-U.S. security talks in Washington on Saturday said a peaceful solution to the Taiwan issue is one of the "common strategic objectives" of Japan and the United States. China, which regards Taiwan as part of its territory, has denounced the reference as meddling in its internal affairs. Koizumi said the Washington security talks were aimed at reinforcing the Japan-U.S. alliance as well as reducing the burden on Japanese people of hosting U.S. military bases while maintaining the U.S. deterrent.
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Posted by: Billy Bob Joe on Monday, February 21, 2005 - 02:42 PM
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SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Yonhap) -- North Korean transportation authorities warned Japan they would respond in kind to any restriction on the regime's sole ferry route between the two nations, a pro-North Korea media outlet in Japan reported Monday.
According to an online version of the Chosun Shinbo, published by the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, or "Chongryon," Kim Seong-chul, vice director of the North's transportation ministry, said that, "If Japan continues to restrict our Mangyongbong-92, we will make a law counteracting against it."
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Posted by: Billy Bob Joe on Monday, February 21, 2005 - 02:42 PM
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SYDNEY (AFX) - Japan and Taiwan have lodged formal complaints about Australia's unreliability as a coal exporter, citing the growing bottlenecks at Australian ports, The Australian Financial Review reported, citing Australian officials.
Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources general manager for resources development Tania Constable, told a parliamentary economics committee that the department is conducting a review of infrastructure constraints following the complaints.
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Posted by: Billy Bob Joe on Monday, February 21, 2005 - 02:41 PM
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(Kyodo) _ Okinawa Gov. Keiichi Inamine expressed hope Sunday that the discussion between the United States and Japan on security would work to reduce U.S. military facilities in his prefecture after a Japan-U.S. ministerial security meeting ended. "We hope the future discussion (between the two countries) will work to drastically promote a reduction of Okinawa's burden," the governor said.
"We will continue to urge the governments of Japan and the United States that the U.S. Marine Corps in Okinawa be transferred elsewhere outside the prefecture and review the functions of the Kadena Air Base. We will also ask that the burden be reduced in a visible manner," he said.
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Posted by: Billy Bob Joe on Sunday, February 20, 2005 - 02:19 PM
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BEIJING : Beijing expressed "serious concern" about a US and Japanese statement which described Taiwan as a common security issue amid China's military build-up. The two allies declared Saturday that easing tensions in the Taiwan Strait was part of their "common strategic objectives". Their joint statement was released in Washington after a top ministerial meeting of the US-Japan Security Consultative Committee.
The US and Japan also urged China, which has a considerable military force amassed on the Taiwan Strait opposite the island, "to improve transparency of its military affairs." A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Sunday confirmed a ministry statement carried by Hong Kong-based newspaper Wen Wei Po that China is "seriously concerned" over the matter.
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Posted by: Billy Bob Joe on Sunday, February 20, 2005 - 02:17 PM
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WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice raised the issue of Japan lifting completely a ban on imports of U.S. beef while meeting Saturday with her Japanese counterpart. Rice met with Nobutaka Machimura for bilateral talks. The Japanese understood U.S. concerns and were trying to accelerate procedures "and made a commitment the issue would be resolved," said a State Department official who attended the meeting and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Hatushisa Takashima, the Japanese foreign ministry spokesman, said beef imports came up in the talks and that Japan would make an effort to meet U.S. requests. Japan imposed a ban on U.S. beef imports in December 2003 after the United States discovered its first case of fatal brain-wasting mad cow disease, known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy or BSE, in a Washington state Holstein.
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Posted by: Billy Bob Joe on Sunday, February 20, 2005 - 02:17 PM
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(Kyodo) _ Japan offered Sunday relief goods for Pakistanis affected by the recent torrential rains and heavy snow that have killed more than 400 people.
The package, worth 20 million yen, consists of 150 tents, 3,000 blankets and 20 rolls of plastic sheets, a press release said.
Several areas in the southwestern province of Baluchistan, Northwest Frontier Province, northern mountainous areas and Pakistan-administered Kashmir, have been hit hard by heavy rains and snow over the past two weeks.
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Posted by: Billy Bob Joe on Sunday, February 20, 2005 - 02:16 PM
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Yomiuri Shimbun
Payments through legal affairs bureaus will be accepted over the Internet from March 7, the Justice Ministry said Saturday. People who want to avoid mishaps concerning rent and other expenses will be able to make payments via Internet banking from next month after completing an application on the ministry's Web site.
Once a person has completed procedures to make a payment, he or she will receive a copy of the transaction over the Internet. Those who wish to withdraw money paid to a legal affairs bureau also can do so via the Internet, transferring the amount to a designated bank account. The services will be provided free of charge, according to the ministry.
Under the current system, which is commonly used to deal with rent payments among other things, a person must go to a legal affairs bureau in person to deposit money or withdraw payment.
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Posted by: Billy Bob Joe on Sunday, February 20, 2005 - 02:16 PM
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(Kyodo) _ The Japanese and U.S. defense chiefs agreed Saturday to advance the ongoing bilateral research on a missile defense system to the development stage in fiscal 2006, a Japanese official said.
Japanese Defense Agency Director Yoshinori Ono welcomed U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's proposal to move the research into the development stage, the official said after their meeting.
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Posted by: Billy Bob Joe on Sunday, February 20, 2005 - 02:15 PM
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(Kyodo) _ Japan's health ministry is considering subsidizing the cost of medical checkups of atomic bomb survivors who live in South Korea in a bid to upgrade medical care for survivors there, ministry sources said Saturday.
The envisioned aid will cover about 1,800 people in South Korea with health certificates recognizing them as survivors of the bombs dropped during World War II by the United States on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, and Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945, the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry sources said. The aid comes as more A-bomb survivors are growing old. The ministry estimates that about 2,100 A-bomb survivors live in South Korea. They account for half the A-bomb survivors living abroad.
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Posted by: Billy Bob Joe on Saturday, February 19, 2005 - 01:04 PM
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Lima -- Peru will step up efforts to extradite disgraced former president Alberto Fujimori from self-imposed exile in Japan by providing more evidence against him, including documents showing he authorized torture, the state attorney investigating him said yesterday.
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