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WORLD / Asia-Pacific
Japan's NKorea diplomacy, Japan-US alliance unchanged: FM
(Agencies)
Updated: 2007-09-13 14:25
Kyodo --?Japan's diplomacy with Democratic People's Republic of Korea and
its alliance with the United States will remain unchanged and solid,
despite a change in Japan's top leader, Japanese Foreign Minister
Nobutaka Machimura said on Wednesday after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
announced his resignation.
US ambassador to Japan Thomas Schieffer (R) speaks with Japanese Foreign
Minister Nobutaka Machimura at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo September
12, 2007. [Reuters]
"Policies will be decided under the new prime minister and new Cabinet
but Japan's diplomacy will not be changed in a major way," Machimura told
reporters shortly after the announcement of Abe.
Machimura also said, "Japan-US relations will not be shaken at all just
because of the sudden resignation."
Touching on the Japanese Diet's debate on whether to extend the
anti-terrorism law, Machimura said there will not be a major change in
the plan to compile a new law to continue the Maritime Self-Defense
Force's refueling mission in the Indian Ocean to support the US-led
anti-terror operatiovns in and around Afghanistan.
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