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Emperor Awards Grand Cordon at Spring Conferment Ceremony newsonjapan.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from newsonjapan.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
In Japan, a MEXT Minister has a lot on his or her plate: the extensive Ministry is a huge administrative machine whose purview includes education, culture,[...]
Two factors have driven the debate over the planned U.S. military realignment in Japan: campaign pledges made by the Democratic Party of Japan and complaints from Okinawans about the presence of the U.S. military. These factors have had a particularly strong impact on efforts to preserve the Marine Corps Air Station on Okinawa. However, other critical factors—national interests, regional threats, and the U.S.–Japan alliance’s military requirements—are absent from the discussion over the station’s scheduled relocation from Futenma to a more remote locale. The Obama Administration should continue to press Japan for implementation of the military realignment agreement. It is past time for Tokyo to jettison its passive consensus-building approach and take more assertive steps.
In the gloom of a Lower House election post-mortem, the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan was forced to ponder whether joining forces with the Japanese Communist Party was the right thing to do.
Applied Materials To Focus On Share Buybacks After Kokusai Deal Falls Through [China, Japan, KKR] Posted on Semiconductor equipment maker Applied Materials (AMAT) on Monday terminated its planned acquisition of Japanese peer Kokusai Electric from global investment firm KKR. AMAT stock fell on Monday. [3/21] Santa Clara, Calif.-based Applied Materials had announced its intent to buy Kokusai for $2.2 billion in cash in July 2019. The purchase price later rose to $3.5 billion after Applied Materials negotiated a deadline extension. But the parties ultimately were unable to secure approval for the transaction from Chinese regulators. Applied Materials has agreed to pay KKR a deal termination fee of $154 million in cash.
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JAPAN LOOKS AT NEW BASE RELOCATION OPTION Submitted by admin on Mon, 03/08/2010 - 00:00 Futenma troops would move to new Okinawa site By Therese Hart HAGATNA, Guam (Pacific Daily News, ) – The Japanese government has conveyed to the United States that Tokyo will not go through with an existing plan to relocate a U.S. Marine base in Okinawa. Citing several Japanese-U.S. sources, Kyodo News reported that Japan has now begun considering in earnest an alternative plan to reclaim an area between the U.S. Navy facility on White Beach in Uruma and Tsuken Island off the main island of Okinawa.