Japan, China, S. Korea hold health ministers' meeting

Japan, China, S. Korea hold health ministers' meeting

TOKYO, Japan - (From L) Chinese Health Minister Chen Zhu, Japanese health minister Akira Nagatsuma and South Korea's Health, Welfare and Family Affairs Minister Jeon Jae Hee shake hands after signing a memorandum during their meeting in Tokyo on Nov. 23, 2009. The three countries agreed to boost cooperation on food safety issues and measures against the new H1N1 influenza virus.

Japan, China, S. Korea hold health ministers' meeting

Japan, China, S. Korea hold health ministers' meeting

TOKYO, Japan - (From L) Chinese Health Minister Chen Zhu, Japanese health minister Akira Nagatsuma and South Korea's Health, Welfare and Family Affairs Minister Jeon Jae Hee show a memorandum signed during their meeting in Tokyo on Nov. 23, 2009. The three countries agreed to boost cooperation on food safety issues and measures against the new H1N1 influenza virus.

Japan, China, S. Korea to cooperate in combating new strains of f

Japan, China, S. Korea to cooperate in combating new strains of f

BEIJING, China - Health ministers from Japan, China and South Korea -- (from L to R) S. Korea's Jeon Jae Hee, China's Chen Zhu and Japan's Yoichi Masuzoe - shake hands after signing an action plan to fight a potential pandemic of avian flu or new strains of influenza in Beijing on Nov. 2. (Kyodo)

Japan, China, S. Korea hold health ministers' meeting

Japan, China, S. Korea hold health ministers' meeting

TOKYO, Japan - (From L) Chinese Health Minister Chen Zhu, Japanese health minister Akira Nagatsuma and South Korea's Health, Welfare and Family Affairs Minister Jeon Jae Hee shake hands after signing a memorandum during their meeting in Tokyo on Nov. 23, 2009. The three countries agreed to boost cooperation on food safety issues and measures against the new H1N1 influenza virus. (Kyodo)

Japan, China, S. Korea hold health ministers' meeting

Japan, China, S. Korea hold health ministers' meeting

TOKYO, Japan - (From L) Chinese Health Minister Chen Zhu, Japanese health minister Akira Nagatsuma and South Korea's Health, Welfare and Family Affairs Minister Jeon Jae Hee show a memorandum signed during their meeting in Tokyo on Nov. 23, 2009. The three countries agreed to boost cooperation on food safety issues and measures against the new H1N1 influenza virus. (Kyodo)