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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...
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 StatesJAPAN/CHINA: MSDF ship to visit China
China and Japan have agreed that a maritime self-defence force (MSDF) ship will visit China later...
JAPAN/US: Gates meeting discusses relocations
Minister of Defence, Shigeru Ishiba, met US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates in Singapore on May...
United StatesJAPAN: Policy-makers discuss JSDF missions
JAPAN: Top policy-makers recently indicated the possibility moves to despatch the Japan Self...
JAPAN: Fukuda backs Oslo process charter
Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda's administration has backed an Oslo process charter, which would ban...
JAPAN/CHINA: JSDF aid despatch is aborted
JAPAN/CHINA: Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura yesterday announced that the government...
JAPAN/SOUTH KOREA: Takeshima tensions are averted
Japan seems to have averted a new set of tensions with South Korea over the Takeshima territorial...