Archive for May, 2008
Japan joins cluster bomb ban effort (UPI)
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TOKYO, May 31 (UPI) — Japan will change position and support a new draft international treaty to ban cluster bombs, officials say.
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Japan’s parliament is preparing to end centuries of discrimination by recognising the Ainu people of northern Japan as indigenous.
(Reuters) - The largest of the International Space Station’s laboratories will be Japan’s Kibo, which means “hope.”
Japan’s defense minister urged greater transparency of China’s military capabilities on Saturday. Shigeru Ishiba told delegates at an annual security summit in Singapore that Japan does not mean to suggest China’s growing military might is a threat.
One of the cliches most bandied about in the Japanese business world is yareba dekiru. An English equivalent might be the title of Jamaican reggae star Jimmy Cliff’s great 1972 hit, “You Can Get It If You Really Want.” There will always be vested interests in a political bureaucracy such as Japan’s, particularly when the politicians are lining their vests with cash graciously offered by …
Japan backed down from a plan to dispatch the Air Self-Defense Force to send aid to quake-stricken China after miscalculating the deep-rooted hostility Chinese harbor from their wartime experience with Japan. Unlike past disputes related to bilateral history, however, the Chinese government was also party to the failed efforts to properly anticipate the Chinese public’s reaction to the envisaged …
Tokyo pledges help on many fronts to lift GDP in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. By Somporn Thapanachai in Tokyo Japan has promised to continue investing effort and support to help three countries in the Mekong region - Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia - achieve US$1,000 per-capita GDP within the next decade, according to Masahiko Koumura, the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Famous names ranging from rock star Bono to US President George W. Bush called for action to fight poverty in Africa in a special edition Saturday of one of Japan’s major newspapers.
Japan urged China on Saturday to be more transparent about its military capabilities and step up dialogue with its neighbours to enhance regional security.