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• Japanese firms, Kazakhstan prepare uranium production from 2010 RIA Novosti 26 Dec 2007 -- Japanese companies are set for cooperation with the Kazakh government to launch nuclear fuel production in Kazakhstan in 2010, the Japanese economics ministry said on Wednesday.
• Japan continues to boost its missile defenses RIA Novosti 24 Dec 2007 -- Japan's Cabinet endorsed Monday a review of emergency missile defense rules giving Self-Defense Forces (SDF) the discretion to fire missile interceptors without the premier's go ahead, the Kyodo agency said.
• JAPAN SUCCESSFULLY DESTROYS BALLISTIC MISSILE DURING FIRST TEST OF LOCKHEED MARTIN AEGIS BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEM Lockheed Martin 18 Dec 2007 -- The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force made history yesterday when, for the first time, a Japan Aegis guided missile destroyer equipped with Lockheed Martin's [NYSE: LMT] Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile target in space.
• Japan/U.S. Missile Defense Flight Test Successful MDA 17 Dec 2007 -- Rear Admiral Katsutoshi Kawano, of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) and Lt. General Henry "Trey" Obering III, Director of the United States Missile Defense Agency, announced today the successful completion of the cooperative Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) intercept flight test, off the coast of Kauai in Hawaii
• Japan Intercepts Test Missile Above Pacific Ocean VOA 18 Dec 2007 -- Japan says it has successfully completed its first test of a U.S.-developed missile interceptor, striking down a ballistic missile over the Pacific Ocean early Tuesday
• Japan Successfully Test Fires Its First Raytheon-Built Standard Missile-3 Raytheon 17 Dec 2007 -- The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force successfully flight tested its first Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN)-built Standard Missile-3
• U.S. ban forces Japan to modernize F-15 fighters RIA Novosti 17 Dec 2007 -- Japan will be unable to purchases state-of-the-art U.S. fighter aircraft before 2010, and will prioritize instead the upgrading of the Air Force's 40 F-15 Eagle jets, a Defense Ministry source said on Monday.
• Japan's Moves for Establishment of MD under Fire KCNA 10 Dec 2007 -- Japan is busy establishing its own missile defence system (MD), organizing missile units and staging missile launching exercises of the Self-Defence Forces (SDF).