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    • Japan cuts out middleman to help struggling fishermen 

      Bloomberg (Manila Standard, February 7, 2017, on page B4)
      Ryohei Nomoto wants to put fresher sashimi on your plate, and more money in the wallets of Japan’s struggling fishermen. His venture airfreights freshly caught fish from across Japan, processes them on the grounds of Tokyo’s ...

    • Japan defends dolphin hunt after US criticism 

      Associated Press (AP) (The Philippine Star, January 22, 2014, on page A-22)
      A Japanese government spokesman defended an annual dolphin hunt Monday, after U.S. Ambassador Caroline Kennedy tweeted that she was deeply concerned by the inhumanity of the practice. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga ...

    • Japan eyes options in maritime dispute 

      TNS (The Manila Times, November 9, 2015, on page C4)
      As tension mounts in the South China Sea over the U.S. military’s recent patrol challenging China’s territorial claims there, speculation has centered on what action Japan may take in the region. On Friday, Prime Minister ...

    • Japan eyes resumption of commercial whaling 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (The Manila Times, July 28, 2018, on page B6)
      Japan will seek a partial resumption of commercial whaling at a meeting of the International Whaling Commission later this year, officials said Wednesday. Tokyo has regularly sought the easing of the IWC’s moratorium on ...

    • Japan firm seeks to spawn salmon farm revolution 

      Natsuko, Fukue (Manila Standard, March 1, 2018, on page A4-A5)
      In a mountainous area near Tokyo, the water in a tank is a murk of writhing grey salmon, slithering past each other as they angle for food. They are part of an experiment that Sogo, chief operating officer at FRD Japan, ...

    • Japan fish cesium levels remain 

      Associated Press (AP) (Manila Bulletin, October 30, 2012, on page B-8)
      Radioactive cesium levels in most kinds of fish caught off the coast of Fukushima haven't declined in the year following Japan's nuclear disaster, a signal that the seafloor or leakage from the damaged reactors must be ...

    • Japan gives P337M to Filipino farmers, fisherfolk 

      (The Manila Times, September 5, 2022, on page B11)
      The government of Japan has donated P337.5 million to support new initiatives by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and the World Food Program (WFP) for farmers and fisherfolk affected by Typhoon ...

    • Japan heatwave threatens famed tuna auction 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Manila Bulletin, August 14, 2018, on page 5)
      Fishmongers at Tokyo’s famed Tsukiji tuna auction are feeling the heat as the ageing market’s air conditioners struggle to keep up with a heatwave blanketing the country. The dilapidated market is due to close later this ...

    • Japan heatwave threatens famed tuna market auction 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (The Manila Times, July 14, 2018, on page B8)
      Fishmongers at Tokyo’s famed Tsukiji tuna auction are feeling the heat as the ageing market’s air conditioners struggle to keep up with a heatwave blanketing the country. The dilapidated market is due to close later this ...

    • Japan kills 122 pregnant whales 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (The Manila Times, June 1, 2018, on page B7)
      Tokyo: Japan killed 122 pregnant minke whales during a highly controversial annual whaling expedition that Tokyo defends as scientific research but conservationists call “gruesome and unnecessary.” The four-month expedition ...

    • Japan may dump radioactive water into the sea-minister 

      Reuters (Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 11, 2019, on page A14)
      Japan's Tokyo Electric Power will have to dump radioactive water from its destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean as it runs out of room to store it, Environment Minister Yoshiaki Harada said on ...

    • Japan may give planes to Manila for South China Sea patrols 

      Reuters (Manila Bulletin, August 7, 2015, on page 8)
      Japan wants to give planes to the Philippines that Manila could use for patrols in the South China Sea, sources said, a move that would deepen Tokyo’s security ties with the Southeast Asian nation most at odds with Beijing ...

    • Japan military joins historic PH war games 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Philippine Daily Inquirer, October 7, 2018, on page A13)
      Japan has its own maritime territorial dispute with Beijing in the East China Sea. The US military stressed that Saturday’s exercise was not aimed at China, which has also built artificial islands on disputed areas of the ...

    • Japan not joining US patrols in disputed seas 

      Lee-Brago, Pia (The Philippine Star, November 18, 2015, on page 10)
      Japan is not joining the United States’ “freedom of navigation” operations in the South China Sea and the West Philippine Sea but supports the superpower’s endeavor to achieve peace and security in the region, Japanese ...

    • Japan offers PH help in sea row 

      Barcelo, Vito (Manila Standard, June 4, 2016, on page A2)
      Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on congratulated President-elect Rodrigo Duterte for his victory as he urged the incoming president to push for multilateral talks in settling the territorial disputes in the South China Sea.

    • Japan opposes trade ban on bluefin tuna 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Manila Bulletin, February 25, 2010, on page B-7)
      Japan opposes plans to list the Atlantic bluefin tuna, which is highly prized in sushi and sashimi, as a most-endangered species and to ban its international trade, an official said Monday. The UN-backed wildlife trade ...

    • Japan plans to send largest warship to South China Sea 

      Reuters (Manila Bulletin, March 15, 2017, on page 5)
      Japan plans to dispatch its largest warship on a three-month tour through the South China Sea beginning in May, three sources said, in its biggest show of naval force in the region since World War Two. China claims almost ...

    • Japan PM backs Rody on WPS 

      Mendez, Christina (The Philippine Star, May 20, 2021, on page 2)
      Amid the concerns over the West Philippine Sea, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has expressed support for President Duterte’s stance, aired before the United Nations General Assembly last year, that the 2016 arbitral ...

    • Japan proposes end to commercial whaling ban 

      Associated Press (AP) (The Philippine Star, September 12, 2018, on page 21)
      Japan proposed an end to a decades-old ban on commercial whaling at an international conference Monday, arguing there is no longer a scientific reason for what was supposed to be a temporary measure. But the proposal faces ...

    • Japan protest Chinese Navy ship's provocation 

      Reuters (Philippine Daily Inquirer, February 7, 2013, on page A21)
      A Chinese navy vessel aimed a type of radar normally used to aim weapons at a target at a Japanese navy ship in the East China Sea, prompting Japan to protest, Japan’s defense minister said on Tuesday, an action that could ...