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UK JAPAN RELATIONS

JAPAN
Oct 9, 2019
Visits to Tokyo's war-linked Yasukuni Shrine by ministers may resume after more than two years
Since conservatives close to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe joined his Cabinet in a reshuffle last month, there has been speculation that visits to war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo by Cabinet ministers may resume after a halt of 2½ years.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 9, 2019
Japanese manufacturers use decades of experience to dominate key chemical market for cutting-edge chips
Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co., JSR Corp. and Shin-Etsu Chemical Co.: Three seemingly inconspicuous companies suddenly came into the spotlight in early July when Japan announced it would slap tightened export controls to South Korea on three key chemicals — photoresists, fluorinated polyimide and hydrogen fluoride...
JAPAN
Oct 8, 2019
Japan's Rising Sun flag: A bone of contention for South Korea
Late last month, South Korean lawmaker An Min-suk of the ruling Democratic Party stood before the media in Seoul to explain a resolution proposed in the National Assembly.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 8, 2019
Trump wishes Abe 'a very happy birthday' — on day of Putin's birth
U.S. President Donald Trump wished Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, his golf buddy and close ally, a "very happy birthday" on Monday, at the start of a formal signing ceremony for his country's recently reached trade deal with Japan.
JAPAN
Oct 8, 2019
Japan to conduct trial tour to Russian-held isles from Wednesday
A trial sightseeing tour to two of four Russian-held islands off Hokkaido at the center of a decadeslong territorial row between Tokyo and Moscow will take place between Wednesday and Oct. 16, the Japanese government has said.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 7, 2019
With U.S. help, Japan analyzing threat level from North Korean submarine-launched missiles
In cooperation with the U.S. military, the Defense Ministry in Tokyo is analyzing how much of a threat North Korean submarine-launched ballistic missiles may pose.
BUSINESS
Oct 7, 2019
Where the Japan-U.S. trade deal falls short of the Trans-Pacific Partnership abandoned by Trump
President Donald Trump has called his new trade deal with Japan a "phenomenal" victory for U.S. farmers.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 6, 2019
Trump aims to use trade deal to win election
Japan continues to find ways to please Trump while avoiding a worst case scenario for Japan's economy.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 4, 2019
Saving the Japan-South Korea relationship
Historical and territorial disputes have consistently marred bilateral ties, but relations between the two democracies have hit a new low.
EDITORIALS
Oct 3, 2019
The Japan-EU partnership grows deeper
The Japan-EU partnership continues to assume greater signficance.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Oct 3, 2019
The quiet push to fix fractured Japan-South Korea relations
Almost a year has passed since the South Korean Supreme Court handed down a ruling ordering Japanese firms to pay damages to wartime forced laborers.

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A sinkhole in Yashio, which emerged in January, was triggered by a ruptured, aging sewer pipe. Authorities worry that similar sections of infrastructure across the country are also at risk of corrosion.
That sinking feeling: Japan’s aging sewers are an infrastructure time bomb