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Top US envoy for Asia in Japan amid base row

TOKYO : The top US diplomat for Asia was due to meet Japan's foreign minister on Thursday for talks amid a worsening row over an American military airbase on the southern island of Okinawa. ...full story at Channel NewsAsia

from Channel NewsAsia on Thu, Nov 05 2009

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