Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has told South Korea's envoy that Japan appreciates the planned summit meetings with North Korea on possible denuclearization.
Japan's Finance Ministry reportedly submitted tampered documents to prosecutors investigating a controversial land deal with a private school operator.
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Key words : abe appreciate possible
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has told South Korea's envoy that Japan appreciates the planned summit meetings with North Korea on possible denuclearization.
Abe met South Korea's National Intelligence Service chief Suh Hoon in Tokyo on Tuesday. Suh was part of a delegation that met North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump last week.
Abe said Japan's basic policy is to resolve North Korea's nuclear and missile issues, along with the issue of the North's abduction of Japanese nationals.
He welcomed the North's move to hold talks on the premise of denuclearization, but stressed that it must also take concrete action.
Abe called for close cooperation between Japan and South Korea and the United States.
In response, Suh said it was very meaningful that North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un expressed in his own words an openness to denuclearization.
He said South Korean President Moon Jae-in believes that Seoul and Tokyo must cooperate to build on the momentum for peace that began with the PyeongChang Olympics.
Suh said it is more important more than ever that Moon and Abe closely coordinate their positions.
Key words : former abductee
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A former Japanese abductee who was returned from North Korea 16 years ago has renewed his call for the government to rescue others still left in the country.
Yasushi Chimura met with Abduction Issue Minister Katsunobu Kato on Monday.
Chimura and his wife Fukie were kidnapped by North Korean agents in Obama City, Fukui Prefecture, in 1978.
They were returned to Japan after the 2002 summit in Pyongyang between then Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and then North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.
Chimura handed Kato a petition calling for other Japanese abductees to be rescued by year's end and their safety to be ensured.
Chimura then submitted the documents bearing about 3,000 signatures and pledged to continue with a signature-collecting campaign to keep the issue from fading away.
Kato agreed that the issue should not be buried and added that it's important to achieve an outcome rather than just having a dialogue.
Key words : finance reportedly
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Japan's Finance Ministry reportedly submitted tampered documents to prosecutors investigating a controversial land deal with a private school operator.
The case focuses on the sale of state-owned land in Osaka Prefecture to school operator Moritomo Gakuen in 2016 for a fraction of its market value.
The transaction raised suspicions of favoritism, in part because the wife of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was acquainted with the school operator.
Nobuhisa Sagawa, then head of the ministry's bureau in charge of state property, denied in the Diet last year any prior negotiations on the land price between the ministry and Moritomo Gakuen.
However, the Finance Ministry launched an internal investigation earlier this month after a newspaper claimed original documents relating to the land sale were rewritten.
On Monday, the ministry admitted to the Diet that its investigation has found alterations to 14 documents relating to the land deal. It says the changes were made after February last year in order to create consistency with Sagawa's comments in the Diet.
Sagawa resigned last weekend as the National Tax Agency chief, a position he assumed last year.
Sources close to Osaka District Prosecutors' Office, which is investigating the land deal, told NHK that the Finance Ministry had initially submitted these altered documents to the prosecution.
Prosecutors later realized there were 2 versions of the documents, before obtaining the unaltered originals by the end of last year.
Sources say the Finance Ministry also submitted the same tampered documents to the Board of Audit, which examined whether the discounted land sale price was appropriate.
Investigators are understood to be probing why the documents were altered and considering whether to question Sagawa on a voluntary basis.
Key words : protester
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Protesters have rallied in front of the Diet building in Tokyo after Japan's Finance Ministry admitted to altering documents on a controversial sale of state-owned land.
A citizens group organized the rally on Tuesday. It says about 1,000 people, including opposition party lawmakers, took part. The participants chanted "No cover-ups!"
Group member Keisuke Yamamoto said Diet deliberations on the land deal were based on documents whose credibility is now badly damaged.
He added that all political parties should find out the whole picture of the case, who was involved, and who should be held responsible for the alterations.
A high school teacher in his 60s said one year of Diet deliberations on the scandal was wasted as they were based on altered documents, and that this will destroy the country's foundation.
He added that the Diet should summon Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's wife Akie and Nobuhisa Sagawa, who resigned as a senior Finance Ministry official, to explain.
Akie Abe is said to have close ties with the school operator who bought the land at a huge discount. Sagawa headed a bureau in charge of state property when the deal was made.
Key words : land infrastructure disposal
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Key words : Muraoka 3 medal
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Japan's Momoka Muraoka has won her third medal in women's alpine skiing at the PyeongChang Winter Paralympics.
She won the bronze in the super combined slalom sitting category on Tuesday.
In the event, athletes compete to mark the lowest total time for super-G and slalom. Muraoka finished 2nd in both.
The gold medal went to Anna-Lena Forster from Germany. Anna Schaffelhuber, also from Germany, won the silver.
Muraoka had already won bronze in super-G and silver in downhill.
She said she's surprised to have won 3 medals, and that she'll do her best in Wednesday's event.
Key words : district court
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A Japanese district court has ruled against a demand by the Okinawa government that land reclamation work to relocate a US base in the prefecture be halted.
The central government began the reclamation project last year as part of a plan to move the US Marine Corps Futenma Air Station to a coastal district of Henoko.
Okinawa officials claimed that it is illegal for the government to carry out the work without their approval.
They filed a suit with the Naha District Court last July, demanding that the central government halt future reclamation work that would require destruction of the seabed.
They cited fishing rights in waters where the reclamation is underway and said their permission is required to destroy the seabed.
The central government countered that Okinawa had no legal basis to take it to court.
Both sides have been in courtrooms over the issue since 2015. At one point a settlement was reached but the legal battle has since resumed.
In 2016, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the central government, saying it was illegal for Okinawa Governor Takeshi Onaga to revoke his predecessor's permit for the landfill project.
Key words : event thailand demanded
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An event in Thailand promoting flounder from Fukushima has been cancelled amid concerns from consumers.
The event was being held at a Japanese restaurant and scheduled to run through the end of the month. The export of flounder caught in waters off Fukushima was resumed on March 1st for the first time since the 2011 nuclear accident.
The Fukushima prefectural government says a consumer group raised concerns about the safety of the fish. The group said the fish were caught in contaminated waters and dangerous to eat.
The group also reportedly demanded the Thai government announce the name of a local restaurant that sold the fish.
Consumers took to social media to voice their concerns.
Organizers say they cancelled the event to avoid confusion.
Nearly 130 kilograms of flounder have been exported from Fukushima to Thailand but close to half remains untouched. Exports are essentially halted.
A Fukushima government official said the prefecture will continue to promote the safety of the fish in hopes of once again resuming the exports.
Key words : Russia American
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Russia says an American company will build a diesel power plant on one of 4 Russian-held islands claimed by Japan.
Oleg Kozhemyako, the governor of the Far Eastern region of Sakhalin, announced the plan to local media in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on Monday.
Kozhemyako said the plant will be built on Shikotan Island by September. He said the initial output will be 5 megawatts, expanded to 30 megawatts next year.
Kozhemyako said a US-based major machinery maker has agreed to invest in the project. He said the electricity will be used to build and operate a new seafood processing factory planned on the island.
The plant seems to be a sign that Russia intends to tap non-Japanese investment to develop the disputed islands.
Japan rejects third-country business activities on the islands, which it thinks may be used to justify Russian control.
Russia controls the 4 islands. Japan's government says the islands are an inherent part of Japan's territory and were illegally occupied after World War Two.
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