2005.11.16

Dollar-Yen (Reuters) The Japanese currency falls to a fresh 27-month low against the U.S. dollar. 2005.11.16

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ROK-PRC (Yonhap) China, South Korea call for "greater flexibility" in six-way talks concerning North Korea's nuclear weapons. This further reinforces the view that only the United States -- and to a lesser degree, Japan -- is taking a hard line towards Pyongyang's rogue nuke development. 2005.11.16

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Koizumi-Bush Segway (Kyodo) Call it the Segway Summit... 2005.11.16

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Japan mildly objects to PRC comparing Japanese leader's shrine visits to Hitler. [Mainichi] Japan's government says it wasn't nice for China to compare Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visits to a war shrine to worshipping Hitler. 2005.11.16

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ROK police detain 53 farmers for violent protests (AFP). South Korean police say  53 farmers have been detained for questioning after violent street protests against trade liberalization left some 130 people injured. 2005.11.16

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Japan-USA (Kyodo) Updated As expected, nothing significant emerges from 90-minute chat between President Bush and Prime Minister Koizumi in Kyoto this morning. Then Bush gave a speech that dealt more with China than Japan. 2005.11.16

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Fujimori Loses Bid for Release in Chile (AP). Another Chilean court rejects a petition to release the former Peruvian president and Japanese citizen. 2005.11.16

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Bush in Japan Urges PRC to Grant More Freedoms (AP). President Bush, in Kyoto speech, prods China to grant more political freedom to its 1.3 billion people and holds up rival Taiwan as an example of a society that has successfully moved from repression to democracy. 2005.11.16

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Japan-Airlines (Kyodo) Japanese airline labor unions decide not to strike today. 2005.11.16

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Vodafone's Japan unit still struggling (AFP). The Japanese unit of a British mobile telephone giant says market conditions remained fierce in the first half to September as customers defected to rival operators. 2005.11.16

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