Senior Cabinet official opposes ministry's 'sympathy' budget plan+
Aug 24 09:12 AM US/Eastern
(Kyodo) _ Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Tetsuro Fukuyama on Tuesday voiced his opposition to the Defense Ministry's plan to include host nation support expenses for U.S. troops in Japan in a special budget framework for promoting economic growth when the ministry submits its budget request for fiscal 2011, sources familiar with the matter said. ...
DPJ lawmaker Goto resigns on conviction of campaigner+
Aug 24 07:06 AM US/Eastern
(Kyodo) _ Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker Hidetomo Goto resigned as a House of Representatives member on Tuesday after his key campaigner was ...
U.S. proposes change in flight routes for base relocation site+
Aug 24 06:34 AM US/Eastern
(Kyodo) _ The United States has proposed a major change in aircraft flight routes to and from the planned relocation site for the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in Okinawa Prefecture that could worsen noise levels and pose risks to residential areas there, bilateral diplomatic sources said Tuesday....
Ozawa, Hatoyama meet over DPJ presidential election
Aug 24 06:21 PM US/Eastern
NEW YORK, Aug. 24 (AP) - (Kyodo) - TOKYO - Former Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama told Democratic Party of Japan power broker Ichiro Ozawa on Tuesday night that he will support Prime Minister Naoto Kan in next month's DPJ leadership election, sources of the ruling party said.
Hatoyama made clear his support for Kan during talks with Ozawa at a Tokyo hotel in an apparent attempt to prevent the DPJ from creating a serious division as intraparty maneuvering is intensifying ahead of the Sept. 14 election, they said. ...
Hatoyama made clear his support for Kan during talks with Ozawa at a Tokyo hotel in an apparent attempt to prevent the DPJ from creating a serious division as intraparty maneuvering is intensifying ahead of the Sept. 14 election, they said. ...
Gov't to protest tourists' visit to disputed isle with Russian visas+
Aug 24 04:52 AM US/Eastern
TOKYO, Aug. 24 (Kyodo) _ Cabinet ministers on Tuesday showed irritation at a group of Japanese tourists for visiting one of the four...
Kan, U.S. commander agree to work closely on Futenma base relocation+
Aug 24 04:52 AM US/Eastern
(Kyodo) _ Prime Minister Naoto Kan and the head of the U.S. military Pacific Command, Adm. Robert Willard, agreed Tuesday to work closely on the planned relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma airbase in Okinawa Prefecture, the Foreign Ministry said. ...
U.S. proposes change in flight routes for base relocation site+
Aug 24 12:39 AM US/Eastern
(Kyodo) _ The United States has proposed a major change in aircraft flight routes to and from the planned relocation site for the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in Okinawa Prefecture that could worsen noise levels and pose risks to residential areas there, bilateral diplomatic sources said Wednesday. ...
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