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Tokyo — Seventy-four years after Japan’s defeat in World War II, the world’s third-largest economy is in the midst of a quiet military buildup, at U.S. urging. President Trump’s visit to Japan over Memorial Day weekend will culminate with him becoming the first U.S. president in modern history to set foot on a Japanese warship. Mr. Trump will tour the JS Kaga, one of the two largest warships in Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force. In a controversial move, Tokyo recently decided to refit the Kaga and a sister ship to carry F-35B Strike Fighters — effectively creating Japan’s first aircraft carriers since World War II, the first since the attack on Pearl Harbor. Now, after almost 75 years of peace, Mr. Trump’s visit will be seen as a display of military solidarity that has long been sought by Japan’s leaders. Professor Stephen Nagy, international relations scholar at Japan’s International Christian University, said he thinks the photo-op is intended as much for 슬롯머신 규칙 the American public as for Japan’s neighbors China and North Korea. “Over the past two years, three years, President Trump has conveyed a message that alliance partners really are leeching off the United States,” Nagy said. “Prime Minister (Shinzo) Abe would like to send a strong signal that no, that’s not the case, that the Japanese people and the Japanese Self-Defense Forces are stepping up to the...

(CBS News) UNITED NATIONS – With “acrimonious fault lines” between members blocking action by the United Nations Security Council on Syria’s escalating civil war, as a senior European diplomat put it to CBS News, the General Assembly came together Tuesday – for the second time – to shine a light on the issue and try to present a more unified front. More in After the Arab Spring Diplomats accused both President Bashar Assad’s government and the opposition of violating human rights. They pointed to the recent report that more than 100,000 Syrians fled their country in August alone. They called on nations to meet the appeals for humanitarian aid. In the end, however, and with great frustration, they threw up their hands. There is, after all, not much that the General Assembly can do. Syria opposition calls for “Marshall Plan” post-Assad100K fled Syria war in August aloneSyria: No talks with rebels until they’re crushed The U.N.’s hopes for diplomacy now rest with seasoned Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi, the global body’s new envoy to Syria, who has taken over Kofi Annan’s role as negotiator-in-chief after the former U.N. secretary-general quit the position having accomplished little. “The destruction is reaching catastrophic proportions,” Brahimi told the General Assembly’s 193 member nations. “The support of the international community is indispensable and very urgent.” Brahimi’s pleas came two days after he told the BBC...

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