Tag: Japan

TOKYO: Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Wednesday called on China to use its influence over North Korea to ease tensions on the divided peninsula, after Pyongyang's deadly shelling of a South Korean island.
Kan also held a telephone conversation with South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak in which he underlined Japan's strong ties with Seoul and Washington and agreed to work closely together.
The government also hinted it would consider tougher sanctions against Pyongyang

LAHORE: Punjab Board of Investment and Trade (PBIT) Chief Executive Officer Saadat Muzaffar has said that Punjab has developed infrastructure for the facilitation of foreign investors.
PBIT provides technical support and assistance to foreign investors initiating projects in Punjab. He was speaking to a nine member delegation of Japanese Agriculturists (JA).
The delegation was headed by JA Vice Chairman Yasuhiro Nakagawa and President Kyoto Union of Agriculture

TOKYO: North Korea's claimed uranium enrichment programme "should never be tolerated" and was "absolutely unacceptable", Japan said Monday as Pyongyang's nuclear scheme sparked anger in the region.
"Nuclear weapons development by North Korea should never be tolerated," prime minister Naoto Kan told reporters.
"Japan will maintain the position and cooperate firmly with the United States and other nations."
His comments followed disclosures by a US scientist that he had

ISLAMABAD: Official sources have indicated that Japan plans to import Pakistani mangoes from next year and has shown keen interest in investing in the country's dairy and horticulture sectors.
An eight-member delegation of the Japan Agriculture Association (JA) group led by its Vice Chairman Yasuhiro Nakagawa held meetings with the Agriculture Minister Nazar M Gondal and officials of Board of Investment (BOI) here on Monday.
According to official sources, JA delegation was

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Monday asked for enhanced Japanese investment in Pakistan's power, energy and infrastructure development projects, saying his government was keen to increase trade ties with Japan.
The prime minister was talking to Makiko Kikuta, parliamentary vice minister for foreign affairs of Japan, who called on him at the Prime Minister's House.
Gilani said it was gratifying to note that Japan not only had promptly and timely delivered

YOKOHAMA: US President Barack Obama arrived in Japan Friday for a Pacific Rim summit and meetings with other world leaders, after attending the Group of 20 talks in South Korea.
Obama will take part in the weekend Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, hosted by Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan and also attended by China's President Hu Jintao and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
Air Force One touched down at Tokyo's Haneda Airport from Seoul, where the G20

OSLO: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev plans to visit other islands disputed with Japan and step up investments in the archipelago, Russia's foreign minister said on Tuesday, deepening a diplomatic row between Moscow and Tokyo.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, attending a conference in Oslo, said Japan had over-reacted after Medvedev on Monday visited one of four islands seized by Russia from Japan at the end of World War Two.
Japan said it was recalling its ambassador

TOKYO
India's prime minister kicked off talks in Japan where the population giant and the high-tech nation planned to confirm a trade pact. Manmohan Singh, who arrived Sunday, and his counterpart Naoto Kan were also expected to stress the warm ties linking two of Asia's biggest democracies at a time of high diplomatic tensions between Japan and China.
The two premiers are due to declare an economic partnership agreement at conclusion of their talks, with a formal signing

ROTTERDAM
Olympic champions China claimed a fourth straight men's team title at the world gymnastics championships here on Thursday as a late tumble ended the gold-medal hopes of Asian rivals Japan.
The title-chase went down to the wire with the Chinese sealing victory when Japan's Kazuhito Tanaka fell on the final rotation - the horizonal bar. The Kohei Uchimura-led Japanese finished 1.228 points behind to take silver with the bronze going to Germany in a repeat of the

BEIJING
China refused to say on Thursday whether Premier Wen Jiabao will meet Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan at a regional summit this month, and a Chinese diplomat accused Japanese foreign affairs minister of rekindling ill-will.
The swipe at Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara by Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister Hu Zhengyue exposed the prickly tensions that still dog ties between Asia's two biggest economies, despite their efforts to overcome a maritime dispute.

BEIJING: China on Tuesday said it was shocked by the latest comments from Tokyo in a simmering row over a group of disputed islands, as the two sides held informal talks in a bid to ease tensions.
The latest volley in the war of words between Asia's top two economies came after three days of sporadically violent anti-Japan protests in several Chinese cities -- the largest such demonstrations since 2005. Japan and China are trying to rebuild ties that were badly strained after

Japan upset powerhouse Argentina 1-0 Friday in a historic friendly win, crowning former AC Milan boss Alberto Zaccheroni's debut as their coach.
Shimizu S-Pulse striker Shinji Okazaki scored the winner in the 19th minute while the Blue Samurai stopped several scoring attempts by Barcelona star Lionel Messi.
It was the first win for the Blue Samurai in their seven international matches.