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December 2003 - Japan Special Weapons News

  • China, ROK, Japan to cooperate over six-party talks PLA Daily 20 Dec 2003 -- China, South Korea and Japan agreed to enhance coordination over a new round of nuclear talks aiming to solve the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) nuclear issue here on Monday.
  • JAPAN/ TROOPS / IRAQ VOA 26 Dec 2003 -- Japan has sent a small military advance team to the Middle East to prepare for a larger humanitarian mission to Iraq in January. This will be Japan's largest troop deployment since World War Two. The Japanese public opposes the dispatch, fearing troop casualties and terror attacks.
  • JAPAN/MISSILES VOA 19 Dec 2003 -- The Japanese government has announced plans to deploy a U-S-made missile defense system, and to work with the United States to develop the system further. The decision is in response to growing fears about North Korea's weapons development.
  • JAPAN/TROOPS/IRAQ VOA 19 Dec 2003 -- Japan has ordered its military to prepare to aid in reconstruction efforts in Iraq. As V-O-A's Amy Bickers in Tokyo reports, opinion polls show voters oppose the planned deployment, because they believe Iraq is too dangerous.
  • Japan's Sinister Intention behind Troop Dispatch to Iraq under Fire KCNA 18 Dec 2003 -- Two Japanese diplomats were shot to death by resistance force in Iraq recently. This can be seen as a warning to Japan in its moves to dispatch "Self-Defense Forces" to Iraq, Rodong Sinmun today says this in a signed commentary.
  • JAPAN/IRAQ TROOPS VOA 18 Dec 2003 -- Japan moved closer to sending troops to Iraq with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi approving a deployment schedule. The troops are expected to start preparing Friday for a humanitarian mission to Iraq.
  • Japan's Scheme to Introduce MD System under Fire KCNA 17 Dec 2003 -- Japan is heading for the introduction of the missile defense system, raising terrific outcries over fictitious "threat from north Korea" in an effort to hasten its conversion into a military power and overseas aggression under this pretext, says Minju Joson today in a signed commentary.
  • JAPAN/ IRAQ TROOPS VOA 09 Dec 2003 -- The Japanese government has endorsed sending members of its military to Iraq next year to aid the U-S led reconstruction effort. But he government is leaving up in the air exactly when its forces will go.
  • Japan's Moves for Space Espionage under Fire KCNA 08 Dec 2003 -- A Japanese institution for research and development of space flight recently failed in the launching of prototype rocket "H-2A" No. 6 carrying two spy satellites of the government.
  • JAPAN/FUNERAL VOA 06 Dec 2003 -- Japan has honored its two diplomats killed in Iraq one-week ago with a state funeral in Tokyo. Steven Shayman reports from Tokyo that a teary-eyed Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi vowed to continue working alongside the international community for the reconstruction of Iraq, despite the deaths of his countrymen.
  • Baker Lauds Japan's Help in Iraq, Anti-terror Efforts Washington File 04 Dec 2003 -- Japan is among the top five countries in the world assisting in the reconstruction of Iraq, U.S. ambassador to Japan Howard Baker noted in a December 4 speech in Tokyo to the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan.
  • Japan Not Qualified to Participate in Six-way Talks KCNA 02 Dec 2003 -- Japan is working hard to include the "abduction issue" in the agenda of the six-way talks. Abe, secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party, and other heavyweights of Japan on various occasions worked hard to galvanize public opinion saying that the "abduction issue should be discussed in the six-way talks" and "it is necessary to comprehensively settle abduction, nuclear and missile issues" in reference to the agenda of the next round of the talks.



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