By Steve Herman Tokyo 18 May 2006 U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan in Tokyo U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has expressed frustration at the lack of progress in resolving the Iranian and North Kore

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Hi, good morning everyone.We begin with breaking news overnight. New provocations from North Korea, the rogue nation firing three short-range missiles into the water between North Korea and Japan.And ABC's Akiko Fujita is in Tokyo this morning and jo

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By Steve Herman Tokyo 20 January 2006 Japan has announced it is reimposing a ban on all U.S. beef products. Government officials say they were forced to make that decision after spinal material consid

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By Heda Bayron Hong Kong 21 December 2007 Japan has backed down from a highly controversial plan to hunt endangered humpback whales off Antarctica, after fierce criticism by Australia. The Japanese whaling fleet, however, still plans to hunt almost 1

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By Steve Herman Tokyo 13 June 2006 South Korean fishing boats around Dokdo islets, known as 'Takeshima' in Japan No progress was made during the first talks in six years between Japan and South Korea concerning a disputed maritime boundary. --------

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Owner of Crippled Japanese Nuclear Plant Fights for Survival Facing tens of billions of dollars in liabilities, clean-up costs and the eventual decommissioning of its Fukushima power plant, Tokyo Electric Power Company, known as TEPCO, is in a fight

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The Japanese economy continues to be rocked by the global recession. Last month exports plunged and the nation's trade deficit hit a record high. Japan's government says exports dropped by nearly 46 percent in January compared with the same period l

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The subject of North Korea was prominent in talks in Tokyo between U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and top Japanese government officials. Clinton is on her first overseas trip in her new job and her first stop in Asia is America's long-time

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Thousands Protest Nuclear Power in Japan Thousands of Japanese took to the streets of Tokyo to protest the country's nuclear-power plants. The rally occured as engineers continue to work on bringing the Fukushima Daiichi plant under control, after it

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By Paula Wolfson Tokyo 14 November 2009 U.S. President Barack Obama smiles as he arrives at a hall to deliver a speech in Tokyo, Japan U.S. President Barack Obama is calling for a new era in trans-Pacific relations. In a speech in Tokyo, the preside

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By Al Pessin Tokyo 20 October 2009 U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, right, shakes hands with Japan's Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo, 20 Oct 2009 U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates told Japan's new leaders Tuesda

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By Yuriko Nagano Tokyo 17 May 2007 Japan is less than two years away from making a fundamental change in its legal system, by allowing jury trials. Under the new system, average citizens will work alongside judges to issue verdicts in many criminal c

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Vice President Pence has started his five-day trip in Asia. The idea is to highlight two longstanding alliances the U.S. has in the region and send a message to North Korea. The alliance with one Asian partner is smoother than the

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By Steve Herman Tokyo 14 December 2006 Shinzo Abe (File photo) The Japanese government has told families of Japanese abducted by North Korea that the fate of their relatives will not take a back seat to improving ties with the communist state. VOA's

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By Steve Herman Tokyo 05 April 2006 The Philippines says it is very close to signing a wide-ranging economic agreement with Japan. The Philippines has also become the first nation to indicate support

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By Steve Herman Tokyo 04 January 2006 Japan's prime minister, who just days earlier vowed to improve relations with Asian neighbors in the new year, has lashed out at criticism from Beijing and Seoul

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South Korea is calling its ambassador to Japan home, in the latest flare-up of a decades-old dispute. As VOA's Kurt Achin reports from Seoul, the islands at the heart of the conflict trigger some very painful memories for Koreans. South Korean Forei

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By Catherine Makino Tokyo 19 September 2007 The two candidates to succeed Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe played down their differences in a subdued news conference in Tokyo. They say they are confident they can win parliament's approval to extend

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By Catherine Makino Tokyo, Japan 02 March 2007 John Negroponte, the deputy U.S. secretary of state, says North Korea will have to comply with its promise to shut down its nuclear reactor before the United States lifts financial sanctions it imposed.

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For now there remain more questions than answers about how the government of Japan's new prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama, will shape its foreign policy. There have been some indications he will seek to forge closer relations with East Asia, and possi

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