Oil Could Help Japan Resolve Territorial Fight With Russia
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Wearing a white windbreaker to protect him from the Siberian wind, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi stood on the bridge of a Japanese Coast Guard patrol boat on Thursday
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Japan should strengthen its alliance with the United States and allow weapons exports to its ally in light of fresh threats to world security, a panel of experts advised Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that a Chinese state oil company could participate in developing oilfields of the Yukos oil group&#39;s main asset sold at auction at the weekend.
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Russian officials turned up the pressure on the massive Sakhalin-2 oil and gas project, as what is shaping up to be a bitter international dispute dominated an energy conference in Russia's Far East.
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Japan tried to reassure Russia about its missile defense ties with the United States on Tuesday, after Moscow expressed opposition to Tokyo's involvement in the system earlier this month.
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Russia stepped up the pressure on Royal   Dutch Shell and its Japanese partners on Tuesday over a $20   billion oil and gas development in the Far East, sparking   protests from Tokyo and Brussels.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has  offered new talks to resolve the fate of four rocky islands  seized from Japan in the closing days of World War Two,  prompting Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda to consider a  visit to Moscow.
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When Russian President Vladimir Putin put the finishing touches on his country&#39;s ratification of the Kyoto Protocol on Friday, reducing greenhouse gas emissions also moved one notch higher on Japan&#39;s policy agenda.
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At a time when China and Russia are facing far-reaching choices about their oil trade, Russia's energy minister made a quiet trip to Beijing.
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Russia, the world&#39;s second-biggest oil exporter, will benefit most from a Siberian crude oil pipeline to the Pacific rather than to China as energy resources are needed to develop the
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Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura said Tuesday he will press his country's case in Washington this week for reducing what he called the "the excessive burden" placed on Okinawa by the presence of U.S. troops.
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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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The United States and Britain Thursday urged Japan to renew a mission to refuel coalition ships in the Indian Ocean as fierce opposition in parliament dimmed prospects of securing an extension before the deployment expires next month.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Moscow was ready to revive peace talks with Japan that would end their technical state of war dating back to World War II.
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With a Putin aide now at its helm, Russia's state-run oil firm seems set to grab the falling giant's assets
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Russia is trouncing the West in the race to gain access to its neighbors enormous oil and gas reserves.
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Russia&#39;s state-owned Gazprom may complete takeovers next month that will give it almost one-fifth of the nation&#39;s oil output, worth more than $20 billion this year.