July 2005 - Japan Special Weapons News |
- Row over Pyongyang's Abduction of Japanese Threatens to Disrupt Nuclear Talks VOA 23 Jul 2005 -- As delegates to next week's nuclear disarmament talks with North Korea begin gathering in Beijing, the nations involved are already hinting at their individual agendas, providing a glimpse of what subjects may or may not be discussed.
- Japanese Defense Minister Gets Okay To Shoot Down Missiles VOA 22 Jul 2005 -- Japan's Parliament has passed a law authorizing the country's defense minister to order incoming missiles shot down without permission from the prime minister or the cabinet
- South Koreans Fighting Eviction of a North Korean School in Tokyo VOA 15 Jul 2005 -- A group of South Koreans, including more than 30 members of that country's National Assembly, are appealing to Tokyo's metropolitan government not to evict a Korean elementary school from land that it has used rent-free from decades. What is remarkable about the support from South Korea is that the school is run by an association allied with communist North Korea.
- LOCKHEED MARTIN AWARDED $124 MILLION CONTRACT FOR JAPANESE SEA-BASED MISSILE DEFENSE CAPABILITY Lockheed Martin 15 Jul 2005 -- Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) announced today that it has been awarded a $124 million, three year contract for Japanese Foreign Military Sales Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) Weapon System engineering development. The contract provides the Aegis BMD Weapon System upgrades for the first of a planned group of four Japanese Kongo-class destroyers, DDG 173.
- US and Japan Seek Concrete Results in Korea Talks VOA 12 Jul 2005 -- The United States and Japan have agreed that concrete results concerning North Korea's nuclear weapons development must come out of re-started six-party talks later this month.
- Japan Says Abducted Japanese Must Be on Korea Talks Agenda VOA 11 Jul 2005 -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrives in Japan late Monday ahead of talks Tuesday with top Japanese officials.
- JAPAN CLOSELY WATCHING CHINESE NAVY: DEFENSE WHITE PAPER CNA 03 Jul 2005 -- As China's nuclear-powered submarines have increased their activities, Japan must watch the Chinese navy closely, according to the latest draft of Japan's defense white paper.
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