Japan steps up aid to Pacific, wins UN backing
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Japan announced a larger aid package to 12 Pacific island states totalling nearly 400 million dollars and secured their support for its bid for a permanent UN Security Council seat.
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Japan hopes new pledges to rebuild Iraq  will emerge as international donors meet in Tokyo from  Wednesday, but it sees broader participation in stabilizing the  war-torn country as even more important than fresh funds.
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The Japanese government Friday donated 9.25 million dollars (6.42 million euros) to UNICEF to support its child survival programmes in Nigeria, UNICEF said.
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International momentum was building in support of debt relief for tsunami-hit nations on Wednesday after Japan backed the idea despite Australian concerns a debt freeze might not benefit those most in need.
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Japan offers to help build one for the Indian Ocean.
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The United Nations said that aid promised from around the world in response to Asia's tsunami disaster was now up to four billion dollars, as Australia, Germany and the IMF pledged yet more cash ahead of a key donors' conference.
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Japan&#039;s increasing military role  was indicative of U.S. support for a continued U.S.-Japan  alliance, Richard Lawless, the U.S. deputy defense  undersecretary for Asian and Pacific Affairs, said on Tuesday.
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Japan hopes new pledges to rebuild Iraq will emerge as international donors meet in Tokyo from Wednesday, but it sees broader participation in stabilizing the war-torn country as even more important than fresh funds.
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LONDON  - Britain and Australia followed Japan and the United States in pledging dramatic increases in emergency aid for victims of the tsunami disaster in Asia as the world community struggled to cope with its mushrooming fallout.
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UNITED NATIONS: The United States has supported Japan&#39;s bid for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council but is reserving judgement on other potential candidates, including friends Germany, Brazil and India, US Secretary of State Colin Powell said
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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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Russia, China, Britain, France, Germany and dozens of other countries have rallied to support beleaguered UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan after a US senator called for
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Japanese government set out Tuesday fresh steps, including a revision to a disaster relief law, to help survivors hit by a series of deadly earthquakes in Niigata Prefecture as
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Japanâs ruling party was expected to push into law a bill to revive a naval mission to support U.S.-led forces.
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When Mohammad Ali-Hassan, the governor of Al-Muthanna Province in southern Iraq, visited Tokyo last week, he thanked Japan for the aid it has given to his province, where Ground Self-Defense Force troops have been deployed.
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Japan won a two-year term on the UN Security Council and hopes to prove that it deserves a permanent seat on the powerful body as the issue of UN reform takes center stage next year.
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Japan's Foreign Ministry spokesman,    Hatsuhisa Takashima , said here last week that his country had been active in the rebuilding of Afghanistan.