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  07/05/2008 01:31 PM
  U.S. and Japan to discuss next steps in six-party talks (Reuters)

President George W. Bush speaks at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, July 3, 2008, about the rescue of hostages in Colombia. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters)Reuters - President George W. Bush and Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda will discuss the next steps in the six-party talks over North Korea's nuclear status when they meet on the sidelines of the G8 summit in Japan, a White House official said on Saturday.


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  07/05/2008 02:55 AM
  Moderate earthquake jolts Japan (AP)

AP - A moderately strong earthquake shook Tokyo and its environs on Saturday, but there were no reports of injuries or damage, officials said.
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  07/05/2008 01:28 AM
  Quake jolts Tokyo (AFP)

A drum seismograph. A 5.1-magnitude earthquake rocked Tokyo Saturday but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage, the Meteorological Agency said.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Spencer Platt)AFP - A 5.1-magnitude earthquake rocked Tokyo Saturday but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage, the Meteorological Agency said.


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  07/05/2008 01:13 AM
  Earthquake hits north of Tokyo, no damage reported (Reuters)

Reuters - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.1 shook northern Japan on Saturday, a Japanese government agency said, but there were no immediate reports of damage.
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  07/03/2008 11:52 PM
  Japan gives $50 million to food crisis (AP)

Passersby wait to cross an intersection in front of a price board indicating regular gas is sold at 190 yen (US$1.79) per liter (0.26 gallon) and the high-octane gas at 200 yen ($1.88) per liter at a gas station in Tokyo Thursday, July 3, 2008. Between surging oil prices, food inflation and a credit crunch that's depressed global growth, leaders from the Group of Eight economic powers face the gravest combination of economic woes in at least a decade when they gather next week. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)AP - Japan announced Friday it will provide $50 million in new emergency food aid to help developing countries cope with the impact of soaring food prices.


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  07/03/2008 10:07 PM
  Japan pledges extra 50 mln dlrs in food aid before G8 (AFP)

Japan on Friday announced an additional 50 million dollars to help developing countries cope with soaring food prices, increasing the momentum for action at next week's Group of Eight summit. AFP - Japan announced Friday it would contribute a fresh 50 million dollars in aid to developing countries over the next three months to help them cope with soaring food prices.


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  07/02/2008 09:43 AM
  Japan ready to spare humpbacks for another year: official (AFP)

A humpback whale tail. Japan is ready to spare humpback whales from its Antarctic hunt for another year if international whaling talks make progress, a senior Japanese official said Wednesday.(AFP/File/Rodrigo Buendia)AFP - Japan is ready to spare humpback whales from its Antarctic hunt for another year if international whaling talks make progress, a senior Japanese official said Wednesday.


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  06/30/2008 10:56 AM
  Japanese officers punished for planting drugs (AP)

AP - Tokyo Customs punished three of its officers Monday for secretly slipping drugs into travelers' luggage more than 160 times at Japan's main international airport to train drug-sniffing dogs, an official said.
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  06/30/2008 09:28 AM
  Japan to send military mission to Sudan to help UN (AP)

AP - Japan will send military personnel to Sudan to join U.N. peacekeeping operations in the country's first military dispatch to the African nation, Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda said Monday.
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  06/30/2008 01:46 AM
  Japanese man drives car into city hall (AP)

A car remains destroyed at the front door of Tondabayashi city hall after a man angered by the city's welfare policy rammed the car loaded with gas canisters and kerosene, injuring two workers. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)AP - A man angered by a western Japanese city's welfare policy rammed a car loaded with gas canisters and kerosene into city hall Monday, injuring two workers, police said.