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CHINA-STARBUCKS-COFFEE INDUSTRIAL CHAIN (CN)

CHINA-STARBUCKS-COFFEE INDUSTRIAL CHAIN (CN)

(231201) -- BEIJING, Dec. 1, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A barista brews coffee at the Starbucks China Coffee Innovation Park in Kunshan, east China's Jiangsu Province, Sept. 19, 2023. At the ongoing China International Supply Chain Expo (CISCE), U.S. coffee giant Starbucks has attracted great attention through its coffee industrial chain and products. Starbucks entered the Chinese mainland in 1999 and now operates more than 6,800 stores in over 250 cities in China. In 2012, a Starbucks Farmer Support Center was set up in Pu'er of Yunnan Province, the first of its kind in Asia, to further bolster the local coffee farming community. In 2017, Starbucks opened a Roastery location in Shanghai, its second after the one in Seattle in Washington state on the U.S. west Pacific. This September, Starbucks opened a new coffee innovation park in Kunshan of Jiangsu Province, the company's largest manufacturing and distribution investment outside the United States. (Xinhua/Ji Chunpeng)

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CHINA-STARBUCKS-COFFEE INDUSTRIAL CHAIN (CN)

CHINA-STARBUCKS-COFFEE INDUSTRIAL CHAIN (CN)

(231201) -- BEIJING, Dec. 1, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This aerial photo taken on Sept. 19, 2023 shows the Starbucks China Coffee Innovation Park in Kunshan, east China's Jiangsu Province. At the ongoing China International Supply Chain Expo (CISCE), U.S. coffee giant Starbucks has attracted great attention through its coffee industrial chain and products. Starbucks entered the Chinese mainland in 1999 and now operates more than 6,800 stores in over 250 cities in China. In 2012, a Starbucks Farmer Support Center was set up in Pu'er of Yunnan Province, the first of its kind in Asia, to further bolster the local coffee farming community. In 2017, Starbucks opened a Roastery location in Shanghai, its second after the one in Seattle in Washington state on the U.S. west Pacific. This September, Starbucks opened a new coffee innovation park in Kunshan of Jiangsu Province, the company's largest manufacturing and distribution investment outside the United States. (Xinhua/Ji Chunpeng)

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Football: Kashima offer contract to Union Berlin's Uchida

Football: Kashima offer contract to Union Berlin's Uchida

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 19 Kyodo - Union Berlin's Atsuto Uchida (L) and Lucas Holer of Sandhausen vie for the ball during the second half of a Bundesliga 2 football match in Sandhausen, Germany, on Sept. 19, 2017. Japan's Kashima Antlers have offered Uchida a contract, an unnamed club official said on Dec. 19.

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Tennis: Ozaki follows Osaka out the door at Pan Pacific Open

Tennis: Ozaki follows Osaka out the door at Pan Pacific Open

TOKYO, Japan, Sept. 19 Kyodo - Shelby Rogers of the United States returns the ball to Japan's Risa Ozaki in the first round of the Toray Pan Pacific Open tennis in Tokyo on Sept. 19, 2017. Rogers won 6-2, 7-6 (5).

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CHINA-BEIJING-GREEK PHOTOGRAPHER (CN)

CHINA-BEIJING-GREEK PHOTOGRAPHER (CN)

(220829) -- BEIJING, Aug. 29, 2022 (Xinhua) -- In this photo provided by George Doupas, a worker airs stretched noodles in Rui'an, east China's Zhejiang Province, Sept. 19, 2017. TO GO WITH "Across China: The beauty of Beijing through lens of a Greek photographer" (George Doupas/Handout via Xinhua)

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Baseball: Ichiro

Baseball: Ichiro

Ichiro Suzuki of the Miami Marlins grounds out during a game against the New York Mets at Marlins Park in Miami on Sept. 19, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Football: Kashima offer contract to Union Berlin's Uchida

Football: Kashima offer contract to Union Berlin's Uchida

Union Berlin's Atsuto Uchida (L) and Lucas Holer of Sandhausen vie for the ball during the second half of a Bundesliga 2 football match in Sandhausen, Germany, on Sept. 19, 2017. Japan's Kashima Antlers have offered Uchida a contract, an unnamed club official said on Dec. 19. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Eyeing foreign guests, Japan tourism trade turns to credit cards

Eyeing foreign guests, Japan tourism trade turns to credit cards

A Swedish customer (L) hands his credit card to a waiter at the bar of The Rigoletto, a restaurant serving Southern European cuisine in Tokyo's Shibuya district, on Sept. 19, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Efforts under way to help addicts ahead of legalized casino gambling

Efforts under way to help addicts ahead of legalized casino gambling

Sachio Matsushita, deputy director of the National Hospital Organization Kurihama Medical and Addiction Center, speaks during an interview at the center in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Sept. 19, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ajinomoto relaunches sales of locally packaged seasoning in Myanmar

Ajinomoto relaunches sales of locally packaged seasoning in Myanmar

Takaaki Nishii, president and chief executive officer of Japanese seasoning and food maker Ajinomoto Co., speaks at a completion ceremony for a packaging plant of its local subsidiary Myanmar Ajinomoto Foods Co. at the Thilawa Special Economic Zone on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar's commercial capital, on Sept. 19, 2017. (NNA/Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan welcomes Trump's rebuke of N. Korea's abduction of Japanese

Japan welcomes Trump's rebuke of N. Korea's abduction of Japanese

U.S. President Donald Trump, seen in this file photo, criticized North Korea in his address to the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Sept. 19, 2017 for abducting Japanese nationals in the 1970s and 1980s. His speech reflects "deeper understanding" in the United States about the abduction issue, Deputy Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasutoshi Nishimura said. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Trump warns U.S. may have to "totally destroy" N. Korea

Trump warns U.S. may have to "totally destroy" N. Korea

U.S. President Donald Trump, seen in this file photo, warned in his address to the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Sept. 19, 2017 that the United States may have to "totally destroy" North Korea if further escalation of the country's nuclear provocations forces Washington to defend itself or its allies. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mourners flock to palace to pay final respects to late King Bhumibol

Mourners flock to palace to pay final respects to late King Bhumibol

Black-clad Thai mourners visit the Grand Palace in Bangkok on Sept. 19, 2017, to pay homage to the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej who passed away on Oct 13, 2016. The Royal Household Bureau has set Sept. 30 as the last day for people to pay their respects. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mourners flock to palace to pay final respects to late King Bhumibol

Mourners flock to palace to pay final respects to late King Bhumibol

Black-clad Thai mourners patiently queue for hours outside the Grand Palace in Bangkok on Sept. 19, 2017, to pay homage to the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej who passed away on Oct 13, 2016. The Royal Household Bureau has set Sept. 30 as the last day for people to pay their respects. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mourners flock to palace to pay final respects to late King Bhumibol

Mourners flock to palace to pay final respects to late King Bhumibol

Black-clad Thai mourners patiently queue for hours outside the Grand Palace in Bangkok on Sept. 19, 2017, to pay homage to the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej who passed away on Oct 13, 2016. The Royal Household Bureau has set Sept. 30 as the last day for people to pay their respects. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Trump to condemn N. Korea provocations in U.N. address: U.S. official

Trump to condemn N. Korea provocations in U.N. address: U.S. official

U.S. President Donald Trump, seen in this file photo, will condemn North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile tests in his first general debate address at the U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 19, 2017, according to a senior White House official. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Suu Kyi says Myanmar committed to peace in strife-torn Rakhine

Suu Kyi says Myanmar committed to peace in strife-torn Rakhine

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi gives an address in the capital Naypyitaw on Sept. 19, 2017. Suu Kyi said her country is committed to finding a peaceful solution to the ongoing violence in strife-torn Rakhine State. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Emperor, empress attend meeting of war-bereaved families

Emperor, empress attend meeting of war-bereaved families

Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko arrive at the Meiji Kinenkan hall in Tokyo on Sept. 19, 2017, to attend a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the establishment of Nippon Izokukai, an organization of bereaved families of World War II dead. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kotoshogiku beats Onosho at autumn sumo in Tokyo

Kotoshogiku beats Onosho at autumn sumo in Tokyo

Top-ranked maegashira Kotoshogiku sends No. 3 maegashira Onosho to the ground on the 10th day of the 15-day Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan on Sept. 19, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Sumo: Yokozuna Harumafuji suffers 4th loss at autumn sumo in Tokyo

Sumo: Yokozuna Harumafuji suffers 4th loss at autumn sumo in Tokyo

Yokozuna (grand champion) Harumafuji of Mongolia is slapped down by No. 5 maegashira Takakeisho on the 10th day of the 15-day Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan on Sept. 19, 2017, suffering his fourth loss. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Antimissile battery deployed in Hakodate after N. Korea missile tests

Antimissile battery deployed in Hakodate after N. Korea missile tests

An antimissile battery is deployed on Sept. 19, 2017 at a Ground Self-Defense Force camp in Hakodate, a major city on the northernmost main Japanese island of Hokkaido near the flight paths of ballistic missiles recently launched by North Korea. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Emperor, empress attend meeting of war-bereaved families

Emperor, empress attend meeting of war-bereaved families

Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko attend a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the establishment of Nippon Izokukai, an organization of bereaved families of World War II dead, in Tokyo on Sept. 19, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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International forum in China's Xiamen

International forum in China's Xiamen

Photo taken Sept. 19, 2017, shows a business operators' panel discussion on overseas investment related to China's "One Belt, One Road" cross-border development initiative during a forum in Xiamen in the southeastern province of Fujian. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Toshiba board approves 600 bil. yen new share issue

Toshiba board approves 600 bil. yen new share issue

File photo taken Sept. 20, 2017, shows the building that houses Toshiba Corp.'s head office in Tokyo. The electronics maker said on Nov. 19 that its board of directors approved a plan to raise 600 billion yen ($5.3 billion) via a new share issue with the move aimed at improving its finances and preventing its delisting from the Tokyo Stock Exchange. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese-American to visit Japan for 2nd Tokyo Olympics at age 100

Japanese-American to visit Japan for 2nd Tokyo Olympics at age 100

Yoshihiro Uchida (R), coach of the U.S. judo team in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, speaks to his charge Marti Malloy, a bronze medalist in the women's 57-kilogram category at the 2012 London Olympics, in San Jose, California, on Sept. 19, 2017. The second-generation Japanese-American is hoping to return to Japan for his second Tokyo Olympics in 2020 when he will be 100 years old. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese-American to visit Japan for 2nd Tokyo Olympics at age 100

Japanese-American to visit Japan for 2nd Tokyo Olympics at age 100

Yoshihiro Uchida (L), coach of the U.S. judo team at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, poses for a photo alongside his charge Marti Malloy, a bronze medalist in the women's 57-kilogram category at the 2012 London Olympics, in San Jose, California, on Sept. 19, 2017. The second-generation Japanese-American is hoping to return to Japan for his second Tokyo Olympics in 2020 when he will be 100 years old. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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China's border with N. Korea attracting tourists

China's border with N. Korea attracting tourists

Tourists view the North Korean city of Namyang from the Chinese border city of Tumen on Sept. 19, 2017. China's border with North Korea has become a popular tourist destination amid tension over Pyongyang's nuclear and missile programs. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Rugby: Steelers remain unbeaten thanks to win over Jubilo

Rugby: Steelers remain unbeaten thanks to win over Jubilo

Ryuta Yasui (L) of Kobe Kobelco Steelers runs with the ball on his way to scoring a try in the first half of their 38-19 win over Yamaha Jubilo in a Japan Rugby Top League match at Ecopa Stadium in Fukuroi, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Sept. 30, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Rugby: Steelers remain unbeaten thanks to win over Jubilo

Rugby: Steelers remain unbeaten thanks to win over Jubilo

Ayumu Goromaru (C) of Yamaha Jubilo is tackled by Kobe Kobelco Steelers in the first half of a Japan Rugby Top League match at Ecopa Stadium in Fukuroi, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Sept. 30, 2017. The Steelers won 38-19. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Rugby: Steelers remain unbeaten thanks to win over Jubilo

Rugby: Steelers remain unbeaten thanks to win over Jubilo

Andrew Ellis (L) of Kobe Kobelco Steelers runs with the ball in the first half of their 38-19 win over Yamaha Jubilo in a Japan Rugby Top League match at Ecopa Stadium in Fukuroi, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Sept. 30, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Rugby: Steelers remain unbeaten thanks to win over Jubilo

Rugby: Steelers remain unbeaten thanks to win over Jubilo

Andrew Ellis (R) of Kobe Kobelco Steelers runs with the ball in the first half of their 38-19 win over Yamaha Jubilo in a Japan Rugby Top League match at Ecopa Stadium in Fukuroi, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Sept. 30, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Badminton: Axelsen wins Japan Open men's singles

Badminton: Axelsen wins Japan Open men's singles

Viktor Axelsen of Denmark reacts after defeating Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia 21-14, 19-21, 21-14 in the Japan Open men's singles final at Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium on Sept. 24, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Rescue operations continue in Mexico City

Rescue operations continue in Mexico City

Student volunteers carry emergency relief goods in Mexico City on Sept. 21, 2017, after a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck central Mexico on Sept. 19. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Rescue operations continue in Mexico City

Rescue operations continue in Mexico City

Rescue workers continue searching for missing people at a collapsed building in Mexico City on Sept. 21, 2017, after a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck central Mexico on Sept. 19. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Baseball: Marlins rally for walk-off win

Baseball: Marlins rally for walk-off win

Ichiro Suzuki of the Miami Marlins hits a game-tying single in the ninth inning against the New York Mets at Marlins Park on Sept. 19, 2017. J.T. Realmuto hit a walk-off solo home run in the 10th to give the Marlins a 5-4 victory. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Baseball: Marlins rally for walk-off win

Baseball: Marlins rally for walk-off win

Ichiro Suzuki of the Miami Marlins hits a game-tying single in the ninth inning against the New York Mets at Marlins Park on Sept. 19, 2017. J.T. Realmuto hit a walk-off solo home run in the 10th to give the Marlins a 5-4 victory. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Baseball: Darvish in Dodgers-Phillies game

Baseball: Darvish in Dodgers-Phillies game

Yu Darvish of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitches against the Philadelphia Phillies at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia on Sept. 19, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Baseball: Darvish in Dodgers-Phillies game

Baseball: Darvish in Dodgers-Phillies game

Yu Darvish of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitches against the Philadelphia Phillies at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia on Sept. 19, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Rally held in Tokyo against security legislation

Rally held in Tokyo against security legislation

Protesters stage a rally against Japan's security legislation in front of the Diet building in Tokyo on Sept. 19, 2017, the two-year anniversary of its enactment. The placards read "Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe should resign." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Rally held in Tokyo against security legislation

Rally held in Tokyo against security legislation

Protesters stage a rally against Japan's security legislation in front of the Diet building in Tokyo on Sept. 19, 2017, the two-year anniversary of its enactment. The placards read "Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe should resign." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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PM Abe appeals to U.S. companies to consider investment in Japan

PM Abe appeals to U.S. companies to consider investment in Japan

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (far L) speaks during a meeting with executives of major U.S. financial and manufacturing companies in New York on Sept. 19, 2017, to promote investment opportunities in Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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PM Abe appeals to U.S. companies to consider investment in Japan

PM Abe appeals to U.S. companies to consider investment in Japan

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (front 2nd from L) speaks during a meeting with executives of major U.S. financial and manufacturing companies in New York on Sept. 19, 2017, to promote investment opportunities in Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan PM Abe, Jordanian king discuss N. Korea

Japan PM Abe, Jordanian king discuss N. Korea

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) and Jordan's King Abdullah II hold talks in New York on Sept. 19, 2017. Abe said he wants to coordinate with Jordan in enforcing sanctions on North Korea and dealing with the "unprecedented threat" the North poses to the international community. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Balkan chamber orchestra concert

Balkan chamber orchestra concert

The Balkan Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Toshio Yanagisawa, gives a concert on Sept. 19, 2017, at the famed Wiener Konzerthaus in Vienna. The orchestra, made up of musicians from Kosovo, Serbia and other nations that were part of the former Yugoslavia and fought each other in its violent breakup in the 1990s, was founded by Yanagisawa in 2007 to promote reconciliation among the peoples of former enemy nations. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Balkan chamber orchestra concert

Balkan chamber orchestra concert

The Balkan Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Toshio Yanagisawa, gives a concert on Sept. 19, 2017, at the famed Wiener Konzerthaus in Vienna. The orchestra, made up of musicians from Kosovo, Serbia and other nations that were part of the former Yugoslavia and fought each other in its violent breakup in the 1990s, was founded by Yanagisawa in 2007 to promote reconciliation among the peoples of former enemy nations. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Soccer: Leicester beat Liverpool to reach Carabao Cup 4th round

Soccer: Leicester beat Liverpool to reach Carabao Cup 4th round

Shinji Okazaki (20) opens the scoring in the second half of Leicester City's 2-0 win at home to Liverpool in the third round of the Carabao Cup on Sept. 19, 2017. Okazaki also assisted on Islam Slimani's goal. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Baseball: Darvish in Dodgers-Phillies game

Baseball: Darvish in Dodgers-Phillies game

Yu Darvish of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitches against the Philadelphia Phillies at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia on Sept. 19, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan vows to promote "quality infrastructure" in Indo-Pacific

Japan vows to promote "quality infrastructure" in Indo-Pacific

Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono speaks on Sept. 19, 2017 in a meeting in New York on promoting high-quality and environmentally friendly infrastructure. Kono pledged to take the lead in promoting "quality infrastructure" in the Indo-Pacific region. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Abe urges Guterres to include Security Council in U.N. reform

Abe urges Guterres to include Security Council in U.N. reform

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) and U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres shake hands at U.N. headquarters in New York on Sept. 19, 2017. Abe said that reform of the United Nations must include changes to the Security Council in order to be meaningful. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Abe urges Guterres to include Security Council in U.N. reform

Abe urges Guterres to include Security Council in U.N. reform

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) and U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres meet at U.N. headquarters in New York on Sept. 19, 2017. Abe said that reform of the United Nations must include changes to the Security Council in order to be meaningful. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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