Japan, South Korea Hold Joint Sea Rescue Exercise
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Text of report in English by Japanese news agency Kyodo  Kagoshima, Japan, 13 September: The Japanese and South Korean coast guards held a joint sea rescue exercise Wednesday [13 September] in the East China Sea.
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Japan was on alert after a suspected Chinese nuclear submarine entered its waters near a disputed gasfield, setting off a high seas chase amid mounting disputes between the two countries.
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Japan will provide around $30 million in  aid to countries hit by an Indian Ocean tsunami that killed  more than 29,000 people, and will send three navy vessels to  waters off Thailand to help rescue survivors.
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Japan was on alert after a suspected Chinese nuclear submarine entered its territorial waters, setting off a chase on the high sea amid mounting disputes between the Asian powers.
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Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and the leader of Japan's main opposition party met on Tuesday but failed to break a stalemate over extending a naval mission supporting U.S.-led Afghan operations.
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Japan is preparing a set of high-level   alert procedures to follow in the event of a nuclear power   plant accident abroad, out of concern that North Korea may   carry out an underground nuclear test, Kyodo News said on   Saturday, citing government sources.
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The Japanese navy was mobilized on Wednesday for the first time in five years after an unidentified submarine was spotted in waters off Japan.
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Leaders of Japan and South Korea have jointly urged North Korea to return to talks aimed at ending its nuclear weapons program. They agreed that imposing economic sanctions now on Pyongyang would thwart such efforts.
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Ships from  Japan, the United States, Australia and France on Tuesday began  Asia's first naval exercise to clamp down on weapons of mass  destruction, a drill that communist North Korea has called  hostile and provocative.
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The leaders of Japan and South Korea agree to meet, in a bid to repair their countries' strained ties.
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National Guard officials mounted a rescue effort Thursday for two Korean backpackers stranded on an ice floe in the Bering Strait.
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Shaken by a string of deadly earthquakes and aftershocks, Japan is in the grips of an unlikely rescue saga. Rescue teams working in Nagaoka, one of the city&#39;s worst-hit by the initial earthquake on Saturday
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Senior officials from the United States, South Korea and Japan held talks on Friday aimed at arranging a fresh round of six-party negotiations on dismantling North Korea's nuclear programs as doubts grew about the outlook for discussions later this month.
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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi made the pledge after talks with visiting South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun. The Japanese government is under pressure to impose sanctions over a row concerning kidnapped Japanese.
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OJIYA, Japan  - Japan resumed rescue efforts at  first light on Monday as aftershocks rattled the area where the  country's deadliest earthquake in nine years killed at least 23  people and injured more than 2,000 at the weekend.
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The United States and Japan agreed Friday to strengthen cooperation on missile defense amid concerns of a possible long-range rocket launch by North Korea.
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Excerpt from report in English by South Korean news agency Yonhap  Edgewood, Maryland, 12 September: South Korea and the United States conducted combined weapons of mass destruction (WMD) elimination training here on Tuesday [12 September], the first such exercise on American soil.