Word: aso
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...soccer team's likely elimination from the World Cup is not the only thing putting Japan on edge these days. Mounting evidence that North Korea may be preparing to test-fire a missile has shaken the country far more seriously. On Sunday night, Japan's Foreign Minister Taro Aso said during an evening talk show that Japan would consider imposing economic sanctions immediately, and request that the U.N. Security Council take action, if North Korea decided to test a missile. Any test would violate a voluntary North Korean moratorium on long-range missile tests, Aso said, adding that protest from...
...from the Middle East, has long maintained neutrality there. According to senior U.S. sources, Japan, the top buyer of Iran's oil and a nonpermanent Security Council member, was closely consulted on the incentives package. On the day Iran restarted its enrichment activity, Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso called his counterpart in Tehran to urge acceptance of the package...
...There is a fine line between a healthy love of country?which is 'patriotism'?and narrow-minded 'nationalism' that breeds hatred." TARO ASO, Japan's Foreign Minister, in a speech in the U.S. urging Asian governments to keep rising nationalist sentiments in check...
...February, the Japanese government joined the U.S. in declaring peace in the Taiwan Strait a "common strategic objective"?a move highly provocative to China that would have been unfathomable even five years ago. After a postelection cabinet reshuffle in November, Koizumi's newly appointed Foreign Affairs Minister, Taro Aso, said "Japan should first continue to build strong relations with America and, based on this, deepen relations with other Asian nations." That same month, the LDP drafted a plan to alter Article 9, the constitutional clause that famously renounces war, while Tokyo announced a sweeping realignment of the Japan...
...Koizumi has offered unstinting support for Bush's war in Iraq. Since 2004, the Japanese Prime Minister has dispatched around 550 troops to Iraq, where they remain, evidence that Japan still numbers itself among Bush's "coalition of the willing." Koizumi's newly-appointed Foreign Affairs Minister Taro Aso is explicit on how the government sees its priorities and ranks its friends. "Japan," Aso said on Nov. 2, "should first continue to build strong relations with America and, based on this, deepen relations with other Asian nations...