"We've gotten out of some loss-making lines but in Japan relations with customers are wet, so it's hard to cut them off, " says Kobori.
By becoming a champion of female leadership in Japan and the United States, Kennedy could leave a powerful legacy of helping to enhance U.S.-Japan relations.
In the month ahead we can expect the history of U.S.-Japan security relations since WWII to inform campaign speeches.
Proponents argue that the agreement offers significant opportunities for the United States and that failure to abide by its terms, painstakingly negotiated, could drastically worsen U.S.-Japan defense relations.
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They would like to see Japan having better relations with these two countries.
Whatever else may be true about this situation, it should certainly be producing a lot of scholarly thinking about Japan-China relations.
Unfortunately for those hoping for a reset in Japan-Russia relations, there are serious obstacles that prevent their partnership from expanding beyond its current state.
This dilemma has a huge impact on Japan's relations with China.
Abe, a romantic nationalist, is proving a problematic, and potentially disastrous leader for Japan in its relations with its neighbors (and increasingly, I suspect, with the United States).
''During his first term as prime minister, Abe worked on improving Japan's relations with China by seeking to establish a partnership of mutual benefit between the two countries.
Noda stressed the need to develop Japan's relations with the United States, against the backdrop of a changing security situation and the emergence of new nations, and said he would like to develop Japan's mutually beneficial relationship with China.
"We don't intend to worsen relations between Japan and China, " he said, adding that both sides "need to share the recognition that having good relations is in the national interests of both countries".
But Asia's rise since the end of the cold war has complicated Japan's external relations.
In most cases the research they are doing is related to China, or to Japan-China economic relations.
It is the fast-moving developments on the Korean peninsula that are more likely to redefine the outlines of China's relations with Japan.
Inevitably, this means also a new paradigm for strategic relations with Japan.
The prince made his plea on a visit with his wife Camilla to mark the 150th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Japan and Britain.
The row has delayed the government's plans to privatise BNFL and soured relations with Japan - which was due to be a big customer of Mox fuel.
His administration's relations with Japan were disturbingly confrontational at first.
And at a regional trade summit in Vladivostok this month, Japan attempted to improve relations with Russia, a neighbour with whom it has yet to sign a peace treaty ending the second world war.
Japan's new prime minister, Yoshihiko Noda, has indicated that he will make a new attempt to remove the biggest obstacle in Japan's military relations with America, a stalled agreement over relocating American marines in Okinawa.
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Asia in 2013 may not be sliding towards war and China and Japan understand how mutually beneficial relations have been, and how much they risk losing, but we also know the folly of assuming risk away.
"It is in all of our interest for China and Japan to have stable, peaceful relations, " Mrs.
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In a 1999 essay, Mr Zoellick wrote that America should concentrate on overhauling relations with Europe and Japan.
Given Mr Koizumi's friendship with Mr Bush, many worry that relations between America and Japan may cool after he goes.
Could trade differences hurt other aspects of Japan-U.S. relations?
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It has said that North Korea's nuclear programme will be a main priority in Japan's efforts to normalise relations with North Korea following an historic visit in September to the country's capital, Pyongyang, by Junichiro Koizumi, the Japanese prime minister.
After last month's agreement on steps towards ending its nuclear programme, North Korea started bilateral talks on normalising relations with both America and Japan.
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