Tokyo OKs funds for Iraq elections
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Japan, hosting a donors&#39; conference for Iraq reconstruction in Tokyo, pledged Wednesday to disburse $40 billion in aid for Iraq&#39;s elections.
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Japan&#39;s decision to extend its troops&#39; mandate in Iraq will mean they stay in the country for at least another year. But the move, seen as part of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi&#39;s efforts
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The call, at a donor&#39;s conference in Tokyo on Wednesday, comes as attacks by Iraqi fighters have prompted Washington to shift funding from reconstruction to security.
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Japan has welcomed President Bush&#39;s decision to redeploy US troops overseas, saying the changes will better suit the global security environment.
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Japan's cabinet approved new financial   sanctions against North Korea on Tuesday, cranking up pressure   on the reclusive communist state to return to six-country talks   on ending its nuclear program.
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Japan&#39;s Cabinet on Monday endorsed a draft 82.18 trillion yen ($788.7 billion) national budget for fiscal 2005, increasing overall spending to care for an aging population but trimming general and defense outlays.
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TOKYO - Japan&#39;s cabinet decided Thursday to extend the country&#39;s deployment of non-combat troops in Iraq by one more year.
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Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura announces that Japanese govenment has confirmed that a depapitated body found in Iraq is that of Japanese hostage Shosei Koda during an emergency news conference in Tokyo Sunday, Oct. 31, 2004.
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Japanese lawmakers approved a proposal Friday that would rein in the country's fiscal deficit by shifting spending and authority from the national government to regional entities, providing a boost to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's reform agenda.
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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi&#39;s cabinet agreed on Thursday to extend the deployment of Japan&#39;s 600 non-combat troops in Iraq for up to one year, despite
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BAGHDAD, Feb. 26 -- Iraq's cabinet approved draft legislation Monday that would enable the government to manage the country's vast oil resources and distribute revenue throughout the country, a step toward meeting a U.S. demand that the country's parliament pass such a law.
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The Government of Japan has decided to provide support to the UNDP Project 'Support to the establishment of War Crimes Chamber in BiH' by utilizing US$ 500,000 from the Japan/UNDP Trust Fund for BiH, was ...
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Iraq's parliament on Wednesday passed three key pieces of legislation that set a date for provincial elections, allot $48 billion for 2008 spending, and provide limited amnesty to detainees in Iraqi custody.
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Japan decided on Thursday to keep its  troops in Iraq for another year, Prime Minister Junichiro  Koizumi said, although most voters want them to come home from  the nation's riskiest military mission since World War II.
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Japan's Cabinet approved a new set of financial sanctions against North Korea on Tuesday in response to the communist nation's missile tests in July, Kyodo News agency reported.
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TONY EASTLEY: The Japanese Government says it will continue its mission in Iraq, despite the beheading of one of its citizens. The troop deployment is unpopular in Japan, but surprisingly, the political fallout
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Japan approved an extension of its troop  deployment in Iraq Thursday for up to a year, a decision  opposed by most voters, who want to end the nation's riskiest  military mission since World War II.