Word: yoriko
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...Korean Demilitarized Zone, and Washington wants to court-martial him. (His relatives in the U.S. maintain that he was abducted and then brainwashed by North Korea.) If Jenkins leaves North Korea, however, the Japanese would prefer that he stay in Japan for the sake of his family. Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi recently conferred with U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell on the Jenkins case; Koizumi also talked to President George W. Bush on the telephone last week about his planned trip to North Korea...
...Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee rejected calls by Pakistan for new talks. JAPAN Cabinet Kerfuffle Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi scrambled to replace Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka after impetuously sacking her and her deputy following parliamentary squabbles. When former unhcr chief Sadako Ogata turned down the post, Koizumi appointed Environment Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi after temporarily holding the portfolio himself. The Prime Minister?s approval rating plummeted during the crisis. MIDDLE EAST New Challenges For Israelis Thousands of Palestinians attended a symbolic funeral for Wafa Idris, the first woman suicide bomber to strike against Israel. An Israeli man also died in the Jerusalem...
...agreement. The E.U. is keen to press ahead with Kyoto even without the U.S., but the Japanese, whose Washington delegation was as large as the E.U.'s, seem willing to wait at least until the Administration announces an alternative plan. "U.S. participation is very important," said Japanese Environment Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi. The Japanese also agree with the U.S. on several important issues - such as emissions trading, which would permit countries that exceed their required cuts to sell credits to other countries, and counting CO2 absorption by forests as part of targeted reductions...
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