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U S JAPAN RELATIONS

Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 16, 2015
Japan, South Korea remain apart on 'comfort women' issue despite talks
Japan and South Korea have concluded talks on the issue of "comfort women" procured for the Japanese military's wartime brothels without a breakthrough.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 15, 2015
Japanese official warns that South China Sea activities may be precursor to ADIZ
A top defense official has warned that China may be creating artificial islands in the disputed South China Sea as a forerunner to declaring an air defense identification zone (ADIZ) over the waters.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 15, 2015
Japan to keep host-nation support for U.S. forces around current level
The Abe administration plans to keep Japan's host-nation financial support for U.S. forces at around the current level for the next five years, according to government sources.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 14, 2015
Japan's U.S. entanglement
Japan's overreliance on America at times causes its diplomacy to act in a way seemingly at odds with its own interests.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Dec 14, 2015
Abe-Modi deals shows Asia's top powers moving to keep rising China in check
India and Japan took their biggest steps yet to deepen strategic ties, and it's mostly thanks to China.
JAPAN / History
Dec 13, 2015
Xi, top officials absent as China holds Nanking Massacre ceremony
China's president and senior party officials are absent at a ceremony in the city of Nanjing for victims of the 1937 Nanking Massacre committed by the Imperial Japanese Army.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 12, 2015
Civic groups, A-bomb survivors blast Japan-India nuclear power deal
Civic groups and atomic bomb survivors on Saturday criticized the Japanese government for agreeing with India to work toward sealing a civil nuclear cooperation pact, fearing the move might lead India to divert the technology to weapons production.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 12, 2015
Suspicious box found at South Korean consulate in Yokohama: Yonhap
A box containing dried feces was found at the South Korean Consulate General in Yokohama on Saturday, Yonhap News Agency reported, quoting consulate officials.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 12, 2015
Japan, North Korea secretly held abduction talks in November
Japan and North Korea held at least two informal working-level meetings in China in November on the fates of Japanese who were abducted by Pyongyang's agents in the 1970s and 1980s, a source familiar with the nations' relations said Friday.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 10, 2015
India clears Japan's bid for first bullet train ahead of Abe trip
India's Cabinet has cleared a $14.7 billion Japanese proposal to build its first bullet train line, an Indian government minister and official said on Thursday, one of India's biggest foreign investments in its infrastructure sector.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 10, 2015
JR West to invest in railway businesses in Brazil
West Japan Railway Co. has announced that it will invest in railway businesses in Brazil.
JAPAN
Dec 9, 2015
Japan, China agree to continue talks to prevent accidental clashes at sea
Japan and China have agreed to continue consultations for the early launch of a maritime communication mechanism between their defense officials to prevent unintended clashes at sea, the Foreign Ministry announced early Wednesday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 8, 2015
Japan to win contract for India's first high-speed railway
India is reportedly ready to adopt Japanese bullet-train technology, with the two nations' leaders expected to announce the agreement this week.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 8, 2015
Chinese vice premier may visit Japan in spring for economic talks
In a fresh sign of improving bilateral ties, Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang may visit Japan this spring to resume high-level economic dialogue between the two countries, according to a diplomatic source.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 7, 2015
Exhibit of Nanking Massacre starts in China ahead of anniversary
A new exhibition started Monday at a museum dedicated to the 1937 massacre in Nanjing of Chinese citizens by the Japanese military, ahead of this weekend's anniversary of the incident.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 7, 2015
Japan to boost counterterror measures with U.S. in wake of California shooting
The government said Monday that Japan will step up counterterrorism cooperation with the United States in the wake of last week's terrorist attack in southern California.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 7, 2015
Pearl Harbor ceremony unites former U.S. and Japanese pilots
Former U.S. airman Jack DeTour, 92, and Japanese fighter pilot Shiro Wakita, 88, sworn enemies during World War II, together poured whiskey from a battered canteen into Pearl Harbor on Sunday to commemorate the 1941 attack on the U.S. naval base.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 4, 2015
Onaga indignant over 'politically motivated' early return of small land strips in Okinawa
Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga on Friday expressed "strong indignation" over a Japan-U.S. accord announced earlier in the day over returning some land at a key U.S. base in Okinawa ahead of schedule in fiscal 2017.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 4, 2015
Man on video likely visited Yasukuni Shrine before suspected bombing
A South Korean man caught on surveillance camera footage around the time of a suspected bombing at a public restroom at war-linked Yasukuni Shrine on Nov. 23 is likely to have gone to the Tokyo shrine on the preceding day, investigative sources said Friday.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 4, 2015
Japan's defense budget likely to top ¥5 trillion for first time
Japan's defense budget for the next fiscal year is likely to top ¥5 trillion ($40 billion) for the first time, government sources said, as the military prepares for an expanded role under new security legislation.

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