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Japan voting in snap parliamentary elections
Oct 22, 2017 07:02People in Japan have taken to the polls to cast their ballots in snap parliamentary elections, with incumbent Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expected to secure a landslide victory.
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Japan backs Iran nuclear deal amid US opposition
Oct 17, 2017 10:55Japan has become the latest country to announce its support for a landmark nuclear agreement reached between Iran and P5+1 group of countries in 2015, amid almost singular opposition by the United States administration.
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Japan urges US to suspend chopper flights
Oct 13, 2017 08:59Japan urged the US military Friday to suspend the flights of its CH-53 helicopters until safety is guaranteed, after one of them burst into flames in Okinawa.
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US grounds transport helicopters in Japan after fiery crash
Oct 12, 2017 10:28The US military has decided to ground it transport helicopters operating in Japan, after one of them was involved in a fiery crash near a villiage in Okinawa on Wednesday.
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Election campaigning kicks off in Japan
Oct 10, 2017 10:23Campaigning has begun in Japan for snap general elections, which mainly pit Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) against Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike’s newly-founded Party of Hope.
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Tokyo governor Koike will not run in Japan elections: Report
Oct 03, 2017 03:37Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, whose new political party poses a growing threat in elections later this month, has denied speculation that she would run, the Yomiuri newspaper reported on Tuesday.
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Japan’s Abe dissolves parliament ahead of snap polls
Sep 28, 2017 04:10Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has officially dissolved the lower house of the country’s parliament, paving the way for snap elections in which he hopes his party will put up a better showing.
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US sanctions to speed up nuclear program development: N Korea
Sep 18, 2017 13:03North Korea warns that the more sanctions are imposed by the US and its allies against the peninsular country, the faster it will move to complete its nuclear weapons program, as tensions between Washington and Pyongyang escalate at an unprecedented rate.
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US military forces hold joint military exercises with South Korea, Japan
Sep 18, 2017 07:22The United States military has carried out several flights over the Korean Peninsula in joint bombing drills with the South amid escalating tensions between Washington and Pyongyang.
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Strong typhoon hits Japan, halting transport
Sep 17, 2017 03:33A powerful typhoon has ripped into southern Japan, dumping torrential rain, grounding hundreds of domestic flights, and halting train services.