An american expert shows his insight into the situation in east asia and japans Foreign Policy. Japan coast guard authorities are increasing their presence near islands in the pacific. Theyve spotted as many as 100 chinese vessels in the area, and they suspect the crews are illegally hunting for coral. Jewelry made from red coral fetches high prices in china. Coast guard authorities have seen a dramatic rise in the number of chinese vessels off the ogasawara and izu islands. They suspect more than 200 crews have been illegally poaching coral since september. As a typhoon approached this week, they moved outside japans territorial waters. But many started sailing back after the storm passed. Coast guard officials now say theyre on a 24hour watch for more boats. Japanese coral gatherers are complaining about the damage caused by suspected chinese poachers. A representative of a fishery cooperative reported his findings to the tokyo metropolitan government. Yukimi sasaki has been gatherin
Elections in march of next year, after the Ruling Coalition collapses. Trial of kenyas president in doubt with the International Criminal court giving the prosecution just one more week to get its case together. Coalition of nations fighting isil says progress has been made against the group in iraq and syria. Foreign ministers of 60 count thinks are meeting at natos headquarters in brussels, and a joint statements that air strikes are forcing isil fighters to quote proceed with caution. Here is u. S. Secretary of state john kerry had to say. We have made already, significant process progress in two and a half months, but we also acknowledge there is a lot more work yet to be done. Daesh is still perpetrating terrible crimes, but there was a consensuses that the momentum, which it had exhibited two and a half months ago has been halted, that it has been forced to modify its tactics, and some of those modifications severely hampering their ability to operate in the way that they were ce
It was carrying 58 people. 35 are confirmed dead. 8 are missing. The Foreign Ministers of japan, china and south korea could soon get relations back on track. They havent gathered for nearly three years partly because of disagreements over perceptions of history. Now, they are laying the groundwork for a meeting next month. Xi jinping and his south korean counterpart park gun hay got the ball rolling in november. They agreed to resume talks with japan at an early date. The vice Foreign Ministers of all three countries will meet to make preparations. Fumio kishida said he needs to meet his counterparts for the sake are future oriented relationships. Officials in tokyo hope the talks will pave the way for a trilateral summit. A japanese journalist indicted for defaming President Park has filed a lawsuit against the south korea government. He is demanding the authorities allow him to leave the country. Kato is the former seoul bureau chief of the former chinese newspaper. He wrote an arti
It was carrying 58 people. 35 are confirmed dead. 8 are missing. The Foreign Ministers of japan, china and south korea could soon get relations back on track. They havent gathered for nearly three years partly because of disagreements over perceptions of history. Now, they are laying the groundwork for a meeting next month. Xi jinping and his south korean counterpart park gun hay got the ball rolling in november. They agreed to resume talks with japan at an early date. The vice Foreign Ministers of all three countries will meet to make preparations. Fumio kishida said he needs to meet his counterparts for the sake are future oriented relationships. Officials in tokyo hope the talks will pave the way for a trilateral summit. A japanese journalist indicted for defaming President Park has filed a lawsuit against the south korea government. He is demanding the authorities allow him to leave the country. Kato is the former seoul bureau chief of the former chinese newspaper. He wrote an arti
Search and rescue operations by an eu mission and they proposed to share the burden of dealing with incoming refugees. Finally give the idea of a new sense of urgency, a new sense of political will from the European Union side to tackle the issue of migration and the trafficking and smuggling of people across the mediterranean. But there are differences of opinion over the scale and range of the proposed measures. Italian authorities are continuing their search for survivors and bodies from saturdays deadly ship wreck in the mediterranean. A boat containing 700 people capsized off the coast of italy. Prosecutors say some rescued were from somalia, nigeria and jips. The boat left egypt and stopped at a port on route to italy. Troops from the United States and ukraine have joined in a joint training exercise. Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko says that his country epartnership with the United States has entered a new phase. U. S. Defendant Department Spokesperson steve warn denied the