VIDEO: 2016 Election Will Hinge on Foreign Affairs

The crisis in Ukraine and elsewhere will put foreign policy at the forefront of the 2016 presidential election, Jerry Seib says on the News Hub. Photo: Getty Images.

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US sending 2 warships to Japan to counter NKorea

ASSOCIATED PRESS — TOKYO — U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel delivered a two-pronged warning to Asia Pacific nations Sunday, announcing that the U.S. will send two additional ballistic missile destroyers to Japan to counter theNorth Korean threat, and saying China must better respect its neig…
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US to deploy 2 more destroyers to Japan by 2017

U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, center, is escorted by his Japanese counterpart Itsunori Onodera, right, as they inspect an honor guard at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo, Sunday, April 6, 2014. Against the backdrop of Russia’s takeover of Ukraine’s Crimean region, Hagel…
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Japan Orders Military Strike On Any North Korea Missiles Considered A Threat

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Japan’s Defence Minister Onodera reviews troops from the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force 1st Airborne Brigade during an annual new year military exercise in Funabashi

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan has ordered a destroyer in the Sea of Japan to strike any…
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Hagel: US strongly committed to protecting Japan

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks to members of a travel press pool, Friday, April 4, 2014, in flight, while en route to Tokyo, from Honolulu. Hagel is traveling to Japan, China and Mongolia. (AP Photo/Alex Wong, Pool)

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U.S. to skip China fleet review after Japan shunned

HONOLULU (Reuters) – The United States is scrapping plans for a Navy ship to join a fleet review in China after key ally, Japan, was not invited, U.S. officials said on Thursday, in a move that came just ahead of Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel’s trip to Japan and China.

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Japan Aso: BOJ’s aggressive stimulus should be appreciated

Japan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Taro Aso smiles as he adjusts his headphones during a seminar at the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) 46th annual board meeting in Greater Noida, on the outskirts of New Delhi May 3, 2013.
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Japan raises sales tax in bid to stabilize government finances

By Elaine Kurtenbach ,APApril 2, 2014, 12:01 am TWN

TOKYO — Japan raised its sales tax Tuesday, moving to stabilize government finances but at the risk of undermining a shaky economic recovery.
It’s a gamble the world’s No. 3 economy must take, given its soaring public d…
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Will world court ruling end Japan’s whaling?

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FILE – In this Thursday, March 27, 2014, packs of whale meat to be sold hang at a whale meat specialty store at Tokyo’s Ameyoko shopping district. Japan’s whaling in the Antarctic is at a crossroads after the International Court of Justice ordered it halted this week,…
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Yahoo Japan buys SoftBank’s eAccess to set up new mobile Internet service

TOKYO (Reuters) – Yahoo Japan Corp will buy mobile network operator eAccess from No. 3 Japanese wireless carrier SoftBank Corp for 324 billion yen ($ 3.17 billion) to launch its own mobile Internet service.

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