Japanese F-2 fighter jets were scrambled, as the Russian Su-27 planes flew south over the Sea of Japan before turning back to the north, Japan's Kyodo news agency said.
Mr. Kay also would use economic and financial pressure points, especially suspending South Korean trade links with the North and Japan's money flows to North Korea, to compel Pyongyang to accept aggressive, intrusive inspections of its nuclear facilities.
Months earlier he was thwarted when Moscow revoked ChevronTexaco's right to share in the production of the vast Sakhalin-3 field on the island north of Japan.
In the Sakhalin-1 project, for example, Rosneft and ExxonMobil are among five owners in an oil and gas project off the east coast of Russia, north of Japan.
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The talks with Japan ended abruptly on their second day, after a North Korean walkout, apparently in anger at Japan's stance on North Korea's abduction of Japanese citizens in the 1970s and 1980s.
Baseball's biggest event, the World Series, is a non-event outside of North America and Japan.
Officials from the US, China, North Korea and Japan, among other countries, also sent messages of condolence.
What eventually became Pella Corp. sells mostly residential windows and doors in North America, Japan and China.
It also goes beyond the historical scope of IAE, the OECD countries (much of Europe, North America, Japan, and Korea).
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Also there was an increase in selling expenses as the number of Coach-operated stores in North America, Japan and China increased.
But what was interesting here is that North America and Japan were the weakest regions, even with Verizon added recently to the mix.
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He wants to put aside intra- and cross-party rivalries in order to secure funding for reconstruction of the tsunami-ravaged regions of north-east Japan.
This year's record-breaking fish was caught off north-eastern Japan and weighed in at 222kg (489lbs), some 47kg lighter than last year's prize-winner, which fetched 56m yen.
The company has close to 70 LTE contracts globally and is focusing on key regions in North America, Japan and Korea where LTE is being laid out.
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Located in north-east Japan, the 12th-century site, representing the Buddhist Pure Land gained its world heritage status three months after the earthquake and tsunami devastated the surrounding region.
In the wake of the catastrophic earthquake-tsunami that ravaged North-east Japan in March 2011, this conference will also highlight the impacts of geology in tectonically-active areas such as the Japanese Archipelago.
"For things to progress smoothly, there must be improved relations between the United States and North Korea, between North Korea and the European Union and between North Korea and Japan, " he told the New York Times.
Representing the Asia-Pacific region of FIFA, the world soccer association, under the auspices of the Asian Football Confederation (with 46 member nations) at the 2010 South Africa World Cup venue are four teams: Australia, South Korea, North Korea and Japan.
Soyabeans are native to north-east Asia (Japan, the Korean peninsular and north-east China).
Toyota Motors posted a big loss in the first quarter as its sales in Japan and North America continue to suffer from the effects of a massive earthquake and tsunami combo that rattled Japan back in March.
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Like most of the world outside Europe and North America (and Japan) that is.
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Another draw is an impressive array of visiting faculty from China, Japan, North America and Europe.
The talks have included China, the U.S., South Korea, Russia, Japan and North Korea.
This week, for example, Japan and North Korea sat down in Pyongyang to discuss normalizing relations.
The company remains the dominant European player and is No. 2 in North America, after Japan's Bridgestone.
Toyota Motor Corporation announced its Q1 earnings for fiscal 2013 which were buoyed by strong performances in Japan and North America.
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Customers are mostly from abroad, including from Japan, North America and Europe.
Their visit comes at a particularly delicate time, scarcely a month after the breakdown of the planned six-party talks (with U.S., China, Russia, Japan, North Korea and South Korea) that the White House insists is the proper venue for resolving the nuclear standoff.
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He did report to duty to a U.S. Army Base in Japan (ironic again, since U.S. bases are there to protect Japan from North Korean attack) where he was court-martialed (in his sixties, he wore again his private uniform), spent time in the stockade, and dishonorably discharged.
Japan, meanwhile, is anxious that America, in pursuit of nuclear progress, will remove North Korea from its terrorism blacklist before Mr Kim has come up with information Japan wants about its citizens abducted to North Korea in the past.
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