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  Nuclear scare stories are a gift to the truly lethal coal industry

  16 Dec 2013: George Monbiot: Coal is a much nastier power source than the one we have chosen to fear in a deadly form of displacement activity

• Shinzo Abe: is Japan's PM a dangerous militarist or modernising reformer?

  16 Dec 2013: As East China Sea tensions escalate, nobody knows for sure which way the 59-year-old would jump if push came to shove

• Japanese business confidence hits six-year high, Tankan survey shows

  16 Dec 2013: Fourth straight quarter of improvement as companies benefit from robust domestic demand and weak yen

• China bitterly attacks Japanese prime minister over air zone remarks

  15 Dec 2013:

  Shinzo Abe's comments that Beijing is violating freedom of aviation are condemned as 'malicious slander'

• Sugar high: I am a professional cake designer. Have any questions for me?

  12 Dec 2013:

  Alisa Suzuki: I started cake decorating as a hobby when I was 13. Now my job is to design cakes and transform visions into sugar paste

• Japan condemned for 'secret' executions

  12 Dec 2013: Two more men have been hanged, under a system where death row prisoners are not told of their execution until hours before

• International Space Station in partial shutdown due to cooling pump problem

  12 Dec 2013: Crew members shut down minor systems to reduce power load, though Nasa says issue is not an emergency at the moment

• Japan sets up amphibious military unit to counter China threat over islands

  11 Dec 2013: Draft of Japan's defence plan outlines military build-up as concerns grow over China's claim to disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu islands

• Japan's whaling fleet en route to Southern Ocean for 'scientific' hunts

  9 Dec 2013: Sea Shepherd conservation group presses Australia's coalition government to honour pledge to monitor fleet's activities

• Japanese economic growth lower than expected

  9 Dec 2013: Investment has slowed and exports have grown less than expected despite Shinzo Abe's economic revival strategy

• South Korea extends its air defence zone to overlap with China's

  8 Dec 2013: New spur to regional tensions as Japan also warns China against claims on South China Sea

• Chinese parliament rebukes Japanese lawmakers over disputed islands

  7 Dec 2013:

  National People's Congress insists Beijing's imposition of air defence zone over Senkakus is in line with international law

• China pulls out of UN process over territorial dispute with Philippines

  6 Dec 2013: • Move underscores China's tough geopolitical stance in region
  • Territorial claims continue to dominate visit by Joe Biden

• Joe Biden reaffirms US strategy for Asia-Pacific with talks in Seoul

  6 Dec 2013: US vice-president meets with South Korean president at the end of regional visit dominated by China airspace row

• Large fishing nations fail to agree to deep cuts in Pacific tuna quotas

  6 Dec 2013: Conservationists and small Pacific nations warn overfishing is threatening the species

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