Japan proposes FTA talks with South Korea in January
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IBUSUKI, Japan: Japan&#39;s Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura proposed Saturday Japan and South Korea hold talks on a free trade agreement (FTA) as early as January next year.
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Japan may position missile interceptors around the site of the Group of Eight summit of industrialized nations, to be held on the northern island of Hokkaido in July, a newspaper said on Wednesday.
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THE HAGUE : Japan's state postal service plans and Dutch post and logistics group TPG are holding preliminary talks about a possible future alliance, a spokeswoman for TPG Post said.
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Japan and North Korea will hold talks next week to discuss the resumption of multilateral negotiations aimed at dismantling the communist nation&#39;s nuclear arms program, a Japanese foreign ministry spokesman said.
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South Korea is working with its  diplomatic partners to try to hold nuclear talks with North  Korea this month, but recent North Korean comments suggested no  grounds for optimism, the South's foreign minister said on  Friday. There are plans to hold a fourth round of nuclear  negotiations among the two Koreas, the United States, China,  Japan and Russia by the end of September as the countries  agreed at the previous session in June.
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South Korea proposed on Tuesday the opening of a regular train service with the North at talks that got off to a rough start with Pyongyang calling for the end of U.S.-South Korea military drills and a breach of etiquette.
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TOKYO Top diplomats from Japan, South Korea and the United States said Friday that they were committed to resuming six-nation talks this month in hopes of persuading North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program, officials said.
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U.S. envoy Christopher Hill was en route to North Korea Thursday for talks on the next moves to be made under a nuclear disarmament agreement reached earlier this year, a Japanese government spokesman said.
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Japan is considering aid for North Korea, its first since 2004 when it halted shipments over the abduction issue.
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The U.S. and South Korea will begin a third round of free-trade talks, hoping to make progress toward an accord that could be the biggest of its kind for the U.S. since the North American Free Trade Agreement of 1993.
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Japan plans to host a meeting with Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian officials next month to help broker peace in the Middle East, officials said on Tuesday.
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Japan's Defense Minister said on Sunday  Japan may have to consider negotiating changes in the agreement  that governs the status of U.S. forces in Japan following a  dispute over the management of a U.S. helicopter crash in the  southern prefecture of Okinawa earlier this month.
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TOKYO Japan will ask North Korea in talks on Saturday if it is preparing to fire a ballistic missile, Japan&#39;s top government spokesman said.
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Japan urged North Korea on Wednesday to comply with its international obligations amid reports the two countries had canceled an afternoon session of talks to establish diplomatic relations
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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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Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura said on Sunday North Korea should realize that time was running out before Japan and the international community would begin discussing slapping it with economic sanctions.
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IBUSUKI, Japan  - Leaders of Japan and South Korea  jointly urged North Korea on Friday to return to talks aimed at  ending its nuclear weapons program and agreed imposing economic  sanctions now on Pyongyang would thwart such efforts.