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Japan-U.S. meeting for TPP talks

WASHINGTON, United States - Director General of the Foreign Ministry's Economic Affairs Bureau Takeshi Yagi answers reporters' questions in Washington on Feb. 7, 2012, after the first bilateral meeting between Japan and the United States on Tokyo's bid to participate in the Trans-Pacific Partnership talks.

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S. Korea, Japan start EEZ demarcation talks amid islets row

SEOUL, South Korea - Ichiro Komatsu (L), director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's International Legal Affairs Bureau, and Park Hee Kwon, director general of the Treaties Bureau of South Korea's Foreign Affairs and Trade Ministry, pose for a photo at the start of a two-day meeting on demarcation of their countries' exclusive economic zones in Seoul on Sept. 4.

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Japan, S. Korea hold EEZ demarcation talks amid islets row

TOKYO, Japan - Ichiro Komatsu (R), head of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's International Legal Affairs Bureau, and Park Hee Kwon, director general for the Treaties Bureau of the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, pose for a photo at the start of a two-day meeting aimed at demarcating their exclusive economic zones at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on June 12. (Pool photo)

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Japan, U.S. hold senior working-level talks on beef issue

TOKYO, Japan - J.B. Penn (R), U.S. undersecretary for farm and foreign agricultural services, and Kaoru Ishikawa, chief of the Foreign Ministry's Economic Affairs Bureau, shake hands prior to the start of a bilateral senior working-level meeting on Japanese beef imports from the United States at the Foreign Ministry on Jan. 24.

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Japan, China end 2-day trade talks with no progress

BEIJING, China - The Japanese Foreign Ministry's Economic Affairs Bureau Director General Hitoshi Tanaka briefs reporters in Beijing on July 4 after Japan and China ended trade talks without a breakthrough. The two countries remained at odds over Japan's emergency import curbs on three farm products, the bulk of which come from China, and China's retaliatory punitive tariffs on Japanese exports of three products.

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Japan, China confirm notification scheme in maritime dispute

BEIJING, China - Japan and China hold working-level talks in Beijing on Sept. 15 to confirm the creation of a mutual notification mechanism in a bid to resolve disputes over Chinese research activities in Japan's exclusive economic waters. Shigekazu Sato, deputy director general of the Foreign Ministry's Asian Affairs Bureau, and his Chinese counterpart Cheng Yonghua attended the talks.

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Japan, U.S. hold senior working-level talks on beef issue

TOKYO, Japan - J.B. Penn (R), U.S. undersecretary for farm and foreign agricultural services, and Kaoru Ishikawa, chief of the Foreign Ministry's Economic Affairs Bureau, shake hands prior to the start of a bilateral senior working-level meeting on Japanese beef imports from the United States at the Foreign Ministry on Jan. 24. (Kyodo)

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Japan, S. Korea hold EEZ demarcation talks amid islets row

TOKYO, Japan - Ichiro Komatsu (R), head of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's International Legal Affairs Bureau, and Park Hee Kwon, director general for the Treaties Bureau of the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, pose for a photo at the start of a two-day meeting aimed at demarcating their exclusive economic zones at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on June 12. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)

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S. Korea, Japan start EEZ demarcation talks amid islets row

SEOUL, South Korea - Ichiro Komatsu (L), director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's International Legal Affairs Bureau, and Park Hee Kwon, director general of the Treaties Bureau of South Korea's Foreign Affairs and Trade Ministry, pose for a photo at the start of a two-day meeting on demarcation of their countries' exclusive economic zones in Seoul on Sept. 4. (Kyodo)

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Sugiyama appointed as Japan's vice foreign minister

Photo taken in June 2016 shows (from L) Shinsuke Sugiyama, Japan's deputy foreign minister in charge of political affairs, Takeo Akiba, director general of the ministry's Foreign Policy Bureau, and Keiichi Katakami, ambassador to the European Union. The Japanese government appointed them on June 14 as vice foreign minister, deputy foreign minister and deputy foreign minister for economic affairs, respectively. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan, Cuba hold joint meeting for public and private sector cooperation

Yasushi Takase (C), director-general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Latin American and Caribbean Affairs Bureau, speaks at the first joint meeting between Japan and Cuba on public and private sector cooperation in Havana on Nov. 9, 2015. Japan is looking to strengthen economic relations with Cuba following the Caribbean nation's recent restoration of ties with the U.S. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan-U.S. meeting for TPP talks

WASHINGTON, United States - Director General of the Foreign Ministry's Economic Affairs Bureau Takeshi Yagi answers reporters' questions in Washington on Feb. 7, 2012, after the first bilateral meeting between Japan and the United States on Tokyo's bid to participate in the Trans-Pacific Partnership talks. (Kyodo)

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Japan-South Korea trade row at WTO

Shingo Yamagami (R), head of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Economic Affairs Bureau, and Junichi Ihara, ambassador of the Permanent Mission of Japan to the International Organizations in Geneva, speak at the World Trade Organization headquarters in the Swiss city on July 24, 2019. The issue of Japan's tighter controls on exports to South Korea was taken to the WTO. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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WTO meeting over Japan's export curbs on S. Korea

Shingo Yamagami, head of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Economic Affairs Bureau, meets the press after the first day of a WTO General Council meeting convened in Geneva on July 23, 2019, to discuss Japan's imposition of restrictions on some key exports for South Korea's high-tech industry, a step seen by Seoul as retaliation in an ongoing dispute over wartime labor. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan, China end 2-day trade talks with no progress

BEIJING, China - The Japanese Foreign Ministry's Economic Affairs Bureau Director General Hitoshi Tanaka briefs reporters in Beijing on July 4 after Japan and China ended trade talks without a breakthrough. The two countries remained at odds over Japan's emergency import curbs on three farm products, the bulk of which come from China, and China's retaliatory punitive tariffs on Japanese exports of three products.

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Japan, China confirm notification scheme in maritime dispute

BEIJING, China - Japan and China hold working-level talks in Beijing on Sept. 15 to confirm the creation of a mutual notification mechanism in a bid to resolve disputes over Chinese research activities in Japan's exclusive economic waters. Shigekazu Sato, deputy director general of the Foreign Ministry's Asian Affairs Bureau, and his Chinese counterpart Cheng Yonghua attended the talks.

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Japan, U.S. hold working-level WTO talks in San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO, United States - Japan and the United States begin working-level talks March 6 in San Francisco to iron out differences in a bid to achieve the early launch of a new round of global trade negotiations under the World Trade Organization (WTO). Hitoshi Tanaka (C), director general of the Foreign Ministry's Economic Affairs Bureau, is leading the Japanese delegation.