2006.04.05

Japan-Democrats (Kyodo) Two senior figures of Japan's opposition to face off Friday for leadership of DPJ. 2006.04.05

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Japan-U.S. Missile Radar (Jiji) U.S. to deploy advanced X-band missile defense radar in Aomori-ken within several months. 2006.04.05

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Emergence of rich and poor rattles Japan (AP). The percentage of households with no savings, once unknown in high-saving Japan, hits 22.8 percent, the highest since such national surveys began. 2006.04.05

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Pirates Hijack ROK Ship (AP). Pirates have captured a South Korean-flagged fishing vessel off the coast of Somalia and efforts by a U.S. Navy ship and a Dutch vessel to intervene are abandoned when members of the South Korean crew are threatened with guns and the ship slips into Somali territorial waters. 2006.04.05

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Hitachi eyes new plasma plant (Reuters). Hitachi, the world's fourth-largest plasma panel maker, says it aims to build a new plasma plant and get it operating by the year to March 2010 to meet strong global growth in flat TV demand. 2006.04.05

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JCG-Filipinos (AP) Japan Coast Guard rescues 26 sailors from burning freighter off Hokkaido. 2006.04.05

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Japan-U.S. Military (Kyodo) Washington talks between Japan, U.S. not expected to conclude with agreement on relocation of American military bases on Okinawa. 2006.04.05

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