RUSSIA * JAPAN * ARGUMENT * TERRITORIES
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MOSCOW, Nov 16 (RIA Novosti) - It took the Japanese government quite a while to respond to a Sunday announcement from Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov about Moscow&#39;s readiness to give two of the South Kuriles to Tokyo in exchange for a peace treaty
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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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THE detection of a foreign submarine in Japan&#39;s southern coastal waters threatens to aggravate tensions between Tokyo and Beijing.
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TSKHINVALI, Georgia  - Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia region says it wants to be part of Russia. If its finances are any guide, it already is.
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The rejection sets up a possible showdown between Russia and the West over the disputed territoryâs final status.
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President Vladimir Putin on Monday said Russia is willing to hand over two of the four disputed Kuril Islands to Japan under a declaration that the Soviet Union signed in 1956.
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The Australian Defence Force must defend and project across an air-sea gap. This requires long range autonomous strike weaponry. The Joint Strike Fighter does not solve this issue and detrimentally places added pressure on Australia's limited force of aerial refuelling assets. The world's defence manufacturers are not creating strike platforms that solve Australian needs. For this reason, Australia needs to look to other nations with similar defence needs. In this case, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan all face defending an air-sea gap. Australia should enter a partnership with these nations to create a strike fighter that satisfies the strategic needs of defending an air-sea gap. The benefits of such a partnership will be many.
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Russia&#39;s ratification in November of the Kyoto protocol on climate change marked a high point for co-operation on the issue. The treaty could not have come into force without Russia&#39;s participation, which had been in doubt.
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TOKYO : Major newspapers were divided over Japan&#39;s new defence guidelines which end its decades-old ban on military exports and deem China and North Korea as potential threats.
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Japan protested to Moscow after a Russian  military plane intruded into Japanese air space over the Izu  Islands south of Tokyo on Saturday, a Japanese foreign ministry  official said.
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A. Austria is not correct. B. Netherlands is not correct. C. Canada is correct. D. Philippines is not correct.
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Japan TOKYO -- Japan lodged a formal protest with Beijing yesterday after determining that a nuclear submarine that entered its territorial waters without identifying itself belonged to China. Japan's navy had been on alert since Wednesday, when the submarine was first spotted off the nation's southern island of Okinawa. Tokyo sent reconnaissance aircraft and naval destroyers to shadow the submarine, ...
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PUTRAJAYA: No country should issue statements which can increase tensions in the Asia-Pacific region. Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar said: âRelations between Asia-Pacific countries should be
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Germans are gaga over Barack Obama. He's got Japan pretty jazzed, too, along with Hillary Rodham Clinton. Russia's leaders, not so much: They prefer a Republican Â as long as it's not Kremlin critic John McCain.
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Japan raises concerns over Russia's decision to withdraw support for the Sakhalin 2 energy project.
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SUZUKA (Japan) - First football&#39;s English Premiership, then women&#39;s tennis. Now, the Russians are set to make their mark in Formula One.
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TOKYO In a once-a-decade defense review, Japan adopted plans on Friday to shift its military focus away from the northern cold war threat of invasion from Russia to guarding against missiles from North Korea or Chinese incursions on Japan&#39;s southernmost