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BUSINESS
Nov 11, 2010

Ministers unite against new trade barriers

YOKOHAMA — Foreign and trade ministers meeting in Yokohama on Wednesday agreed to fend off protectionism by extending an existing ban on new trade barriers among member states by at least three years, until 2013.
JAPAN
Nov 9, 2010

Senkaku video leak probed as a crime

Prime Minister Naoto Kan apologized in the Diet Monday as prosecutors opened a criminal investigation into how sealed video footage of the Sept. 7 collisions of a Chinese trawler and two Japan Coast Guard cutters near the Senkaku Islands ended up on the Internet last week.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 9, 2010

Team unity carries Marines to title

NAGOYA — Norifumi Nishimura and the Chiba Lotte Marines have come full circle.
JAPAN
Nov 7, 2010

APEC vows to cut global imbalances

KYOTO — Finance ministers from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum agreed Saturday to work toward reducing global economic imbalances and avoiding a currency devaluation war, stressing foreign exchange rates must be determined by markets and reflect economic fundamentals.

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