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Tillerson Seeks New North Korea Plan On Seoul Visit

Washington's top diplomat was to hold talks in South Korea on Friday after China challenged him to come up with a new...

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Tillerson Calls For ‘new Approach’ To North Korea, No Details

U. S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Thursday the escalating threat from North Korea's nuclear program showed...

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Two Decades of Efforts To Disarm NKorea ‘have Failed’

Two decades of diplomacy aimed at curbing North Korea's nuclear ambitions have failed and a new approach is needed, the...

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US Envoy In Japan To Reassure On North Korea Threat

The United States' top diplomat was in Tokyo on Thursday to reassure allies that Washington stands with them in the...

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Top US Envoy Begins Asia Tour Amid North Korea Crisis

Washington's top diplomat was to fly into Tokyo on Wednesday to begin a first tour of Asian capitals under the shadow...

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Japan Plans To Send Largest Warship To South China Sea, Sources Say

Japan plans to dispatch its largest warship on a three-month tour through the South China Sea beginning in May, three...

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Tillerson To East Asia In Shadow of North Korea Threat

With North Korea's drive to field a nuclear-armed missile rapidly emerging as President Donald Trump's first foreign...

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Saudi King Arrives In Tokyo For Four-Day Visit

Saudi Arabia's King Salman arrived in Tokyo Sunday, making the first visit to Japan by a monarch from the oil-rich...

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Japan Recalls Tsunami, Nuclear Tragedy Six Years On

Japan paused Saturday to mark six years since a deadly earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster devastated its...

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Japan To Withdraw Troops From South Sudan

These Japanese peacekeepers who arrived in November were mandated to use force Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has announced...

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Japan Troops To Withdraw From South Sudan

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced Friday a plan to pull the nation's engineering troops from South Sudan in...

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Tokyo Hit By New Olympic Stadium Cost Fears

Already under fire over soaring expenses, Tokyo's 2020 Olympic organisers on Friday sought to downplay fears that...

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For Japan’s Nuclear Refugees, Insults and Rejection

Satsuki Sekine's home was destroyed in Japan's 2011 tsunami disaster and her family fled in the nuclear panic that...

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Japan PM To Visit Brussels With EU Hoping For Trade Deal

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit Brussels this month, European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker said...

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Japan Court Strikes Down Ban On ‘mannequin Mob’ Protest

Japanese political dissenters chalked up a small victory Wednesday when a court struck down a city's move to ban a...

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China Calls On N Korea To Suspend Missile and Nuclear Tests

China has proposed that North Korea suspend its tests of missile and nuclear technology to “defuse a looming...

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China ‘comfort Women’ History Buried As Brothels Fall

With its red-painted window frames and sooty facade, the empty two-storey building on Gongping Road is typical of many...

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Missile Tests Put North Korea On Trump’s Front Burner

President Donald Trump is facing his biggest foreign policy challenge yet after North Korea fired a ballistic missile...

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North Korea Is Training For An Attack On US Bases In Japan

Nuclear-armed North Korea said Tuesday its missile launches were training for a strike on US bases in Japan, as global...