| Table of Contents: | | | | GEOGRAPHIC REGIONS : AP, China, Japan, United States, Afghanistan, Asia, Iraq, North Korea, United Nations | | | | TOPICS : international relations, politics, defence, foreign policy, government, military, party, regional, security, summit, talks | | | | SIGNIFICANCE : This means he will not meet US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton this week, as had been expected. Scheduling difficulties are blamed, but the sensitive issue of military base realignments, which makes Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) foreign policy appear to lack coherence, may be the root cause as the government tries to settle how best to handle this before President Barack Obama visits. However, contrary to current criticism, the ruling party does have a coherent foreign policy visio |
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