Japan pledged more than $200 million in aid Saturday to help the Palestinian Authority, as representatives from 22 nations reiterated their support of the Palestinians' quest for their own state.
The pledge was announced by Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida at the second Conference on Cooperation among East Asian Countries for Palestinian Development, held in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta.
Kishida said the first disbursement of the aid — about $62 million — was expected later this month.
Read more - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-2570884/Japan-pledges-200-million-aid-Palestinians.html
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In the meantime Japan pays barely anything to those doing the dangerous cleanup of the radioactive crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant.
Charges of inhumane treatment of workers. at Fukushima
Read more - http://intellihub.com/inhumane-treatment-of-nuclear-gypsy-fukushima-clean-up-workers-reported/
Read more - http://intellihub.com/inhumane-treatment-of-nuclear-gypsy-fukushima-clean-up-workers-reported/
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Anne Frank's Diary and other Holocaust books vandalized in libraries all across Tokyo
Yasumi Iwakami, a freelance journalist who writes on social causes in Japan, tweeted there had been sporadic "delusional" arguments about the existence of a Jewish conspiracy surrounding the Holocaust. "But violence has not presented itself to this extent before," he said, calling the incidents the "advent of crude anti-Semitism".
The spree comes amid criticism of a rightwards shift in Japanese politics under nationalist Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, with a recent volley of provocative comments about Japan's wartime past that have sparked accusations of revisionism by China and South Korea.
Read more - http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/177711#.UxIWFZuPKM8
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