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TOKYO, Nov. 7 Kyodo ---------- U.S. mulls Bosworth's visit to N. Korea by year-end: sources WASHINGTON - The United States has entered the...

U.N. to seek dialogue with N. Korea over abduction, Ban tells Japan 

NEW YORK, Oct. 22 Kyodo U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon told a Japanese official Thursday that the United Nations will continue to seek...

3RD LD: U.S. renews call on Japan to decide on base issue before Obama visit 

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 Kyodo (EDS: ADDING STATE DEPT. SPOKESMAN'S REMARKS AT 5-6TH GRAFS) The top U.S. diplomat for Asia renewed a call on Japan...

Japan rules against road over ancient port behind 'Ponyo' 

TOKYO (AFP) — In a rare win for heritage activists, a Japanese court Thursday halted plans for a road bridge over the scenic and ancient port...

DPJ manifesto targets dramatic changes for Japan 

DPJ manifesto targets dramatic changes for Japan

TOKYO, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- With less than a week to Japan's elections, which are...

After running afoul of export regs, Horkos is slapped with penalties 

Horkos Corp. (Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan) has taken punishment from both the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and Tokyo...

Artists as turning wheels 

Ludwig Wittgenstein once wrote: “A turning wheel that causes no motion elsewhere does not belong to a machine.” Filipino artists must...

Perfect List, The 

Exactly twenty years ago, Francis Fukuyama famously declared "the end of history" because the debate over how humans should govern themselves was...

Finding multilateral solutions global cooperation in nuclear non-proliferation: Ruud Lubbers is Minister of State of the Netherlands. He formerly served as the United Nations High Commissioner for refugees from 2001 to 2005 and as Prime Minister of the Ne 

A multipolar world now exists, but it took 20 years after the end of the Cold War for the concept of multipolarity to develop. In 1989, then US...

Blind Japanese pianist's album races up charts 

TOKYO (AFP) — Albums by a blind Japanese pianist have surged up the country's online charts since he won a prestigious US award at the...