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  • Jun 5, 2008
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JAPAN: Diet passes shipping law

Japan's Diet today passed a new law concerning the passage of foreign shipping through its...

  • Jun 4, 2008
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JAPAN/US: Senate passes navy budget

The US Senate on May 14 passed the budget necessary for the US Navy to construct an extra four...

United States
  • Jun 4, 2008
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JAPAN/CHINA: MSDF ship to visit China

China and Japan have agreed that a maritime self-defence force (MSDF) ship will visit China later...

  • Jun 2, 2008
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JAPAN/US: Gates meeting discusses relocations

Minister of Defence, Shigeru Ishiba, met US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates in Singapore on May...

United States
  • Jun 2, 2008
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JAPAN: Policy-makers discuss JSDF missions

JAPAN: Top policy-makers recently indicated the possibility moves to despatch the Japan Self...

  • Jun 2, 2008
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JAPAN: Fukuda backs Oslo process charter

Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda's administration has backed an Oslo process charter, which would ban...

  • May 30, 2008
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JAPAN/CHINA: JSDF aid despatch is aborted

JAPAN/CHINA: Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura yesterday announced that the government...

  • May 28, 2008
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JAPAN/SOUTH KOREA: Takeshima tensions are averted

Japan seems to have averted a new set of tensions with South Korea over the Takeshima territorial...