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Japan to issue commemorative silver coin

OSAKA, Japan - Charmine Koda, director of the United Nations Information Center in Japan, looks at a 1,000 yen silver coin to be issued in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Japan's U.N. membership at the Mint Bureau in Osaka on Aug. 30.

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Experts discuss Indian Ocean tsunami warning systems

KOBE, Japan - Laura Kong, director of the International Tsunami Information Center, based in Honolulu, makes a keynote speech at a special expert-level session on the second day of the five-day U.N. World Conference on Disaster Reduction in Kobe on Jan. 19.

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Senior Foreign Ministry appointments approved

TOKYO, Japan - The government approved July 30 the appointments of Hatsuhisa Takashima (R), a veteran journalist, as the Foreign Ministry's press secretary, and Yuji Miyamoto as ambassador to Myanmar. Takashima, 61, was formerly with Japan Broadcasting Corp. (NHK) and is now chief of the U.N. Information Center in Tokyo. Miyamoto, 56, is director general of arms control and scientific affairs at the ministry.

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Japanese journalist to head U.N. Information Center in Tokyo

NEW YORK, United States - Hatsuhisa Takashima, a veteran Japanese broadcast journalist, speaks at a press conference in New York on Aug. 23 before assuming his duties as head of the U.N. Information Center in Tokyo on Sept. 1. The post has been vacant since June, when former director Thelma O'Con-Solorzano of Nicaragua resigned. Takashima began his career with Japan's public broadcaster NHK in 1963, and will leave the corporation at the end of this month.

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Nagasaki Univ. center to cover U.N. NPT review talks via blog

Keiko Nakamura, associate professor at Nagasaki University's Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, says in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on April 1, 2015, that the center will send out information from New York via its blog on the basis of its analysis of the April 27-May 22 U.N. conference for the review of the operation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan to issue commemorative silver coin

OSAKA, Japan - Charmine Koda, director of the United Nations Information Center in Japan, looks at a 1,000 yen silver coin to be issued in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Japan's U.N. membership at the Mint Bureau in Osaka on Aug. 30. (Kyodo)

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Experts discuss Indian Ocean tsunami warning systems

KOBE, Japan - Laura Kong, director of the International Tsunami Information Center, based in Honolulu, makes a keynote speech at a special expert-level session on the second day of the five-day U.N. World Conference on Disaster Reduction in Kobe on Jan. 19. (Kyodo)

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Senior Foreign Ministry appointments approved

TOKYO, Japan - The government approved July 30 the appointments of Hatsuhisa Takashima (R), a veteran journalist, as the Foreign Ministry's press secretary, and Yuji Miyamoto as ambassador to Myanmar. Takashima, 61, was formerly with Japan Broadcasting Corp. (NHK) and is now chief of the U.N. Information Center in Tokyo. Miyamoto, 56, is director general of arms control and scientific affairs at the ministry. (Kyodo)

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Japanese journalist to head U.N. Information Center in Tokyo

NEW YORK, United States - Hatsuhisa Takashima, a veteran Japanese broadcast journalist, speaks at a press conference in New York on Aug. 23 before assuming his duties as head of the U.N. Information Center in Tokyo on Sept. 1. The post has been vacant since June, when former director Thelma O'Con-Solorzano of Nicaragua resigned. Takashima began his career with Japan's public broadcaster NHK in 1963, and will leave the corporation at the end of this month.