Two Russian fighter jets violated Japanese airspace on Thursday as Tokyo scrambled its own planes in response, in the first such incident in five years.
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- May 26, 2013
- Updated: 5:54am
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Japan’s prime minister said on Thursday he wants to find a “mutually acceptable solution” to a decades-old territorial row with Russia and sign a long-delayed peace treaty with Moscow.
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Amid the tumult in East Asian geopolitics - from territorial disputes to energy security, nuclear weapons and a potential arms race - Evgeny Afanasiev likes to quote Andrei Gromyko, foreign...
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