Topic: Tokyo
TOKYO (Reuters) - The International Atomic Energy Agency must redeploy its inspectors in North Korea to help with the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, Yukiya Amano, director general of the U.N. nuclear agency was quoted as saying by Kyodo news agency.The death ...
HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) - Prime Minister Naoto Kan vowed on Saturday to challenge the "myth of safety" of nuclear power while marking the 66th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, a city that has now started questioning its long embrace of ...
A team of experts from the UN atomic watchdog flew out to Tokyo from Vienna on Sunday to team up with other international experts investigating Japan's nuclear crisis.Six experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency boarded a Tokyo-bound flight from Vienna at ...
China's Premier Wen Jiabao confirmed on Sunday that North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il is visiting China to study its dramatic economic development, South Korean officials said.Wen expressed hope that Kim would use the knowledge to revive his own country's faltering economy, they ...
Japan's cabinet Friday approved new sanctions against Iran, including an assets freeze on figures linked to its nuclear programme and tighter restrictions on financial transactions, media reported.The step comes a month after Tokyo approved punitive measures in line with a June UN ...
Excerpts From Recent Editorials in Newspapers in the US and AbroadExcerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad: But what seemed to be an ordinary big-game hunt, with licenses and duly apportioned quotas (75 in Montana, 220 in ...
Atomic bomb cities Hiroshima, Nagasaki in joint bid for 2020 Summer OlympicsHiroshima and Nagasaki site of atomic bombings in World War II are teaming up to make a bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics that will emphasize world peace.Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba ...
The Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki said Sunday they were considering bidding for the 2020 Summer Olympics in tandem with a campaign to promote a nuclear-free world.The two cities, which were rebuilt from the devastation of US atomic bombings in the ...
TOKYO (Reuters Life! ) - A 77-year-old piano that survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and has become a symbol for peace is heading to New York next year as the city marks the ninth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks.When ...
UN chief Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday that he was determined to achieve a nuclear-free North Korea amid tension over new UN sanctions on the isolated communist regime. "I spare no effort in facilitating the achievement of verifiable denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula," ...
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