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January 2006 - Japan Special Weapons News

  • Japan's Quest for Regional Military Supremacy Blasted KCNA 25 Jan 2006 -- Japan decided to launch two spy satellites this year in a bid to use them and those two already on orbit for putting the DPRK under its intensive watch and additionally deploy even an unmanned U.S.-made reconnaissance plane in Japan.
  • Kazakhs, Japanese Team Up On Uranium Venture RFE/RL 23 Jan 2006 -- Kazakhstan's national atomic-energy company and two Japanese firms have signed a multimillion-dollar deal on the joint operation of a uranium mine in southern Kazakhstan, according to a company news release.
  • Japanese Police Raid Yamaha Over Helicopter Sales to China VOA 23 Jan 2006 -- A police raid on Japan's second-largest motorcycle manufacturer Monday had nothing to do with two-wheeled vehicles. The authorities were looking for evidence that Yamaha Motor exported remote-controlled helicopters to China, in violation of Japanese law.
  • Japan's Vicious Moves against Chongryon under Fire KCNA 20 Jan 2006 -- One of hideous crimes Japan has committed against the Korean people after the liberation of Korea is that it has pursued vicious hostile policy toward the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon), says Rodong Sinmun
  • Japan Takes Diplomatic Role in Iran Nuclear Issue VOA 17 Jan 2006 -- Japan says it hopes to use a long-standing relationship with Iran to help avert a crisis over Tehran's nuclear ambitions.
  • Koizumi Baffled By Attitude of China, S. Korea to War Shrine Visits VOA 04 Jan 2006 -- Koizumi says he is baffled as to why some foreign governments insist on interfering with a spiritual matter and try to twist it into a diplomatic issue. The prime minister insists his visits to the Tokyo shrine are meant to honor all of Japan's war dead and says he goes there to pray for world peace.
  • Japan Looks to Improve Regional Ties in 2006 VOA 02 Jan 2006 -- Both Japan's Emperor Akihito and Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi ushered in 2006 with messages that touch on the frosty relations the country has with some its neighbors.



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