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INDIAN OCEAN

Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 9, 2020
Japan to send disaster relief team to Mauritius over freighter's fuel leakage
More than 1,000 tons of fuel oil had leaked from the stranded freighter, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd., the operator of the vessel, said Sunday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 27, 2018
Japanese helicopter carrier Kaga conducts drills with British warship, headed for contested South China Sea
Japan's biggest warship, the Kaga helicopter carrier, joined naval drills with Britain's HMS Argyll in the Indian Ocean on Wednesday as the frigate headed toward the contested South China Sea and East Asia.
BUSINESS
Jan 24, 2018
U.S. exploration firm begins search for missing Malaysian jet using deep submersibles
A U.S. exploration firm has begun searching for Malaysia Airline flight MH370, which veered far off course and disappeared on March 8, 2014, with 239 people on board, the chief of Malaysia's aviation regulator said Tuesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 7, 2018
Japan and Maldives agree to join hands on Tokyo's Indo-Pacific strategy
Foreign Minister Taro Kono convinces Asia's smallest country to back Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's new strategy as China flexes its muscle in the region.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 17, 2017
Aussie agencies, with help of satellite drift data, pinpoint 'most-likely' location of MH370
New evidence released by Australian government agencies on Wednesday may have narrowed the location of missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370.
WORLD
Dec 3, 2015
Australian hunters of MH370 say new analysis places lost plane within current search zone
Australian authorities hunting for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 said they have new analysis that reaffirms the plane's most likely resting place is within the current search zone, as they seek to solve one of the biggest mysteries in modern aviation history.
JAPAN
Oct 14, 2015
India-U.S. naval exercises in Indian Ocean get MSDF contingent
The Maritime Self-Defense Force is taking part in this year's joint naval exercises by India and the United States that started Wednesday in the Indian Ocean, an area where China has been building up its presence.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 23, 2015
China's Indian Ocean strategy
What are Chinese attack submarines doing in the Indian Ocean, far from China's maritime backyard?
JAPAN
May 28, 2015
54 SDF troops who took part in Indian Ocean, Iraq operations killed themselves: ministry
The ministry disclosed the figures, which cover Self-Defense Forces members deployed overseas on Iraq- and Afghanistan-related missions, during deliberations on bills to expand the scope of SDF operations overseas.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 22, 2015
Modi's outreach to three Indian Ocean states
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's tour of the Seychelles, Mauritius and Sri Lanka indicates that India has at least made a good start toward tackling China's economic and strategic challenge in India's backyard.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 29, 2014
Rivalries hamper hunt for jet
The search for Flight MH370, the Malaysia Airlines plane that vanished over the South China Sea on March 8, has involved more than two dozen countries and 60 aircraft and ships, but it has also been bedeviled by regional rivalries.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jun 14, 2013
Unflinching survival epic recounts tsunami horror
Director Juan Antonio Bayona came out of nowhere — well, Barcelona and the world of music videos, actually — to drop "The Orphanage" on an unsuspecting world in 2007. This chilling and intelligent reinvention of the haunted-house genre went on to become No. 1 at the Spanish box office and also did quite well internationally.

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