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Interesting report from Japan Times<\/a> on the increasing isolation of Japan, which is losing its connection to its only real ally in the world — The United States. Apparently, relatively new Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama had hoped to meet with Obama in Copehnhagen in regards to moving a controversial base.<\/p>\n But White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Wednesday in Washington that because the two national leaders met just last month in Tokyo to discuss the planned relocation of a U.S. Marine base in Okinawa, it was probably unnecessary to meet again on the sidelines of the global climate conference in Copenhagen.<\/p>\n “I think this is appropriately being handled right now with our ambassador there and others in terms of making progress,” Gibbs said. “I think this was discussed just a couple of weeks ago and I think the working group working, we would believe, is the best way to continue that progress.”<\/p>\n This rift (and apparent snub) comes amid rumors of Japan intending to dump $100 billion of its Treasury holdings. We’ve been skeptical of that — and still are; after all, Japan wants to weaken its yen — but the drift apart seems quite clear.<\/p>\n Join the conversation about this story »<\/a><\/p>\n See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n Interesting report from Japan Times on the increasing isolation of Japan, which is losing its connection to its only real ally in the world — The United States. Apparently, relatively new Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama had hoped to meet with Obama in Copehnhagen in regards to moving a controversial base. But White House press secretary […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Read more at Japan Times >><\/a><\/strong><\/h1>\n
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