Topic: Japan
TOKYO (Reuters) - U.S. officials urged on Wednesday Japan to follow the European Union in adopting additional strong sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program, saying such measures should not harm Japan's oil imports from Iran.Japan approved on Tuesday new sanctions against ...
Senior US officials on Wednesday urged Japan to follow Europe's example and take "strong measures" to punish Iran over its contentious nuclear programme.Japan imposed sanctions against Iran on Tuesday in line with a UN resolution and said it plans to announce additional ...
Atomic Apology? US to send first delegation to Hiroshima A-Bomb memorialSurvivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are welcoming a decision by the United States to send its first ever delegation to a ceremony marking the anniversary of the attacks, ...
Sixty-five years after a mushroom cloud rose over Hiroshima, the United States will for the first time send an envoy this Friday to commemorate the bombing that rang in the nuclear age.Its World War II allies Britain and France, both declared nuclear ...
The article discusses the role of the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) in counter-proliferation of the weapons of mass destruction in the Asia-Pacific region. 12 New Zealand International Review The Proliferation Security Initiative, known by its initials as the PSI, was formed by ...
Japan urged Iran Monday to halt its controversial uranium enrichment programme, hinting Tokyo might support additional international sanctions against the country, officials said.The move came as Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada met his Iranian counterpart Manouchehr Mottaki in Tokyo at Tehran's request ...
A senior US official in charge of financial sanctions on North Korea visited South Korea this week for talks, a foreign ministry official said Friday.The official said Daniel Glaser, deputy assistant secretary of the treasury for terrorist financing and financial crimes, arrived ...
A top US official said Friday Japan has "Japan -- which relies heavily on Middle Eastern oil and, unlike its chief ally the United States, maintains relatively cordial ties with Iran -- next month takes the rotating chair of the UN Security ...
Iran's parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani on Friday accused the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), of bending to pressure from the world powers."One of the defects in the IAEA is that it changes positions and attitudes if it is ...
Iran will study a Japanese offer to enrich uranium for Tehran to allow it access to nuclear power for peaceful purposes, an Iranian politician was quoted as saying in Tokyo Thursday.Japan had made the offer, with US backing, in December during a ...
