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G8 SUMMIT 2008

Japan Times
JAPAN / G8 SUMMIT 2008
Jul 4, 2008
Bush vows to help resolve abductions, achieve CO ﾃｨ deal
The United States will continue pressing North Korea to resolve the abductions dispute during the six-party talks aimed at disbanding Pyongyang's nuclear arsenal, President George W. Bush said Wednesday.
JAPAN / G8 SUMMIT 2008
Jul 3, 2008
G8 to back use of nonfood biofuels
Group of Eight leaders are expected to pledge to bring about widespread use of new biofuels from nonfood materials as part of efforts to curb surging food prices, government sources said Tuesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / G8 SUMMIT 2008
Jul 3, 2008
Develop discussion framework for food crisis, farm lender urges
Leaders from the Group of Eight major nations should agree on a framework for promoting deliberations on global food shortages when they meet in Hokkaido next week, the head of the governmental lending agency for agriculture said.
JAPAN / G8 SUMMIT 2008
Jul 3, 2008
G8 won't set base year for CO2 cuts
The Group of Eight leaders are not expected to specify a base year for setting a greenhouse gas emissions reduction target in either the postsummit statement or the chairman's summary to be issued at next week's gathering in Hokkaido because of resistance from some gas emitters, according to government sources.
Japan Times
JAPAN / G8 SUMMIT 2008
Jul 3, 2008
Religious leaders hold peace parley in Hokkaido
SAPPORO (Kyodo) About 300 religious representatives from more than 20 countries met Wednesday to discuss peace ahead of the Group of Eight summit next week in Toyako, Hokkaido.
Japan Times
JAPAN / G8 SUMMIT 2008
Jul 2, 2008
Security tightened ahead of G8
Airlines expanded passport checks at boarding gates in Narita and other international airports Tuesday for all departures ahead of the Group of Eight summit in Hokkaido next week.
JAPAN / G8 SUMMIT 2008
Jun 26, 2008
Police questioning 'discriminatory'
A U.S.-born Japanese citizen living in Sapporo has lodged a protest with the Hokkaido Prefectural Police, alleging its officers are discriminating against foreigners by targeting them in questioning suspicious people ahead of the July 7-9 Group of Eight summit in Toyako. Debito Arudou, an associate professor at Hokkaido Information University, said at a news conference Wednesday in Sapporo that he has submitted a letter of protest to the prefectural force.
JAPAN / G8 SUMMIT 2008
Jun 26, 2008
Fukuda-Bush meeting expected for July 6
Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and U.S. President George W. Bush are expected to hold a bilateral meeting July 6 on the sidelines of the Group of Eight summit in Hokkaido, government sources said Wednesday.
BUSINESS / G8 SUMMIT 2008
Jun 25, 2008
Oil price focus now shifts to G8
JIDDA, Saudi Arabia (Kyodo) With no immediate relief in sight from record-high crude oil prices, an urgent one-day meeting was held in Saudi Arabia before international attention shifts to the Group of Eight industrialized nations' summit in Hokkaido early next month.
JAPAN / G8 SUMMIT 2008
Jun 20, 2008
'Deep' CO2 cuts eyed for summit
Leaders of major economies will call for "deep cuts" in global emissions of greenhouse gases to fight climate change with an "aspirational long-term goal" during their July 9 meeting in Hokkaido, according to a draft of the postmeeting declaration.
Japan Times
JAPAN / G8 SUMMIT 2008
Jun 9, 2008
G8 nations agree to create international energy-saving framework
AOMORI — Energy ministers from the Group of Eight nations on Sunday agreed on the establishment of a new international framework aimed at facilitating energy-saving measures to temper climate change and soaring fuel costs, at a time when crude oil is closing in on $140 a barrel.
JAPAN / G8 SUMMIT 2008
Jun 9, 2008
Larger R&D budgets a high priority for energy security
AOMORI — Energy security, closely connected to global warming issues, has become a hot topic in recent years, but one important aspect of it is relatively unknown: the combined amount of public spending by developed countries on energy technology development has dropped to about half its peak in 1980.
JAPAN / G8 SUMMIT 2008
Jun 1, 2008
G8 to issue special paper on food crisis
Leaders of the Group of Eight powers plans to issue a special statement on food security during their July summit in Hokkaido in a concerted effort to cushion the negative effects of surging food prices, Japanese government sources said Saturday.
JAPAN / G8 SUMMIT 2008
May 27, 2008
Kobe saw discussion but no accord
KOBE — Group of Eight environment ministers held their weekend summit in Kobe hoping, in vain, to emerge with a strong commitment by developed nations to agree on greenhouse gas reduction targets by 2020.
JAPAN / G8 SUMMIT 2008
May 27, 2008
Kobe meet fails to set 2020 goals
KOBE — Environment ministers from the Group of Eight industrialized nations ended a three-day meeting in Kobe on Monday united on the need for a long-term goal of at least halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
JAPAN / G8 SUMMIT 2008
May 25, 2008
U.N. climate chief urges ministers to show their cards
KOBE — The United Nations' top climate-change official expressed concern Saturday about what Japan means by "industrial sectoral" approaches to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and warned that the concept should not replace national targets in any new environmental treaty that would take effect when the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012.
JAPAN / G8 SUMMIT 2008
May 25, 2008
Japan, U.S. agree to form 'clean tech' fund
Japan and the United States agreed Saturday to set up a multilateral "clean technology fund" to spark the development of technology aimed at combating global warming, a Japanese official said. Stephen Johnson, administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, was quoted as telling Environment Minister Ichiro Kamoshita in a meeting in Kobe that Washington wants Japan to consider establishing a global fund because the research involves considerable money.
JAPAN / G8 SUMMIT 2008
May 24, 2008
NGOs call on G8 to take lead in cutting CO 2
KOBE — Major nongovernmental organizations from Japan and abroad gathering in Kobe for the Group of Eight environment ministers' summit called on the G8 Friday to lead the fight against climate change.
JAPAN / G8 SUMMIT 2008
May 22, 2008
Japan to push all polluters
As it plays host to a series of international meetings on conservation, Japan will urge all greenhouse gas emitting nations, including developing countries, to take concrete action against climate change, Environment Minister Ichiro Kamoshita said Wednesday.
JAPAN / G8 SUMMIT 2008
May 20, 2008
G8 environment heads to talk CO2 cuts in Kobe
The Group of Eight environment ministers will open on Saturday a three-day meeting in Kobe on ways to meet Japan's proposal to halve global greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
Japan says Biden's description of nation as xenophobic is 'unfortunate'
The National Diet building in Tokyo
As visitors surge, Japan seeks ways to make tourism eco-friendly
Much like other hot spots across Okinawa, Onna has diligently strived to captivate both domestic and international tourists, while at the same time grappling with the environmental strain induced by the influx of visitors.
G7 eyes plan on U.S.-led $50 billion aid package for Ukraine
A local resident visits the Lychakiv cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine, on Thursday. The U.S. is in talks with close partners to lead a group of allies that would give as much as $50 billion in aid to Ukraine.
Japan drops to 70th in press freedom rankings
A businessman reads a newspaper outside a train station in Tokyo.
Kishida talks up bolstered Latin American ties as China cements position
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida holds a news conference in Sao Paulo on Saturday.
Japan’s tween skateboarders get head start on preparations for 2028 Olympics
Ibuki Matsumoto competes at an event in Osaka on April 21.
As visitors surge, Japan seeks ways to make tourism eco-friendly
Much like other hot spots across Okinawa, Onna has diligently strived to captivate both domestic and international tourists, while at the same time grappling with the environmental strain induced by the influx of visitors.
Kishida talks up bolstered Latin American ties as China cements position
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida holds a news conference in Sao Paulo on Saturday.
Debate on constitutional revision at a standstill despite Kishida's pledges
With less than two months left before the conclusion of the current session of parliament, any possibility that Prime Minister Fumio Kishida can deliver constitutional reform before the end of his term as Liberal Democratic Party president in late September, as he has promised, appears remote.
Sapporo court ruling on Ainu fishing rights presents tough questions
A traditional Ainu preserved food called <i>satchep</i> (dried fish) being made at the government-run National Ainu Museum and Park, nicknamed Upopoy, in the town of Shiraoi, Hokkaido, on Dec. 25. The Sapporo District Court ruled last month that the Raporo Ainu Nation's rights as an Indigenous people did not extend to having an inherent right to fish for commercial reasons.

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