Article: Defense agency upgrade bill clears Japan's Upper House committee

Article: Japan's Upper House of Diet approves defense ...
Xinhua News Agency;  December 15, 2006 ;     489 words ...Japan's Upper House of Diet approves defense agency upgrade bill TOKYO, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- A bill raised ... into a ministry passed the House of Councillors, or the Upper House, as expected on Friday, the scheduled ending day of the ...

Article: Japan's Upper House of Diet to approve ...
Xinhua News Agency;  December 14, 2006 ;     537 words ...Japan's Upper House of Diet to approve defense agency upgrade bill TOKYO ... legislation, the defense agency will be transformed ... also clear the Upper House, Kyodo News said ... process" by some defense agency officials, was ...

Article: Defense agency upgrade bill clears Japanese ...
Xinhua News Agency;  December 15, 2006 ;     567 words ...Defense agency upgrade bill clears Japanese ... government to upgrade the Defense Agency into a ministry passed ... of Councillors, or the Upper House, as expected on Friday ... the legislation, the defense agency will be transformed in ...

Article: Update: Japanese defense agency formally turns into ...
Xinhua News Agency;  January 9, 2007 ;     631 words ... ... the main gate of the Defense Agency headquarters in central ... government to upgrade the Defense Agency into a ministry cleared ... November and passed the Upper House in mid- December ... s necessary for the Defense Agency to be upgraded into ...

Article: Japanese missile defense bill expected to pass upper ...
AP Worldstream;  July 22, 2005 ;     383 words ... ... 2005 Dateline: TOKYO Japan's upper house of Parliament was to vote Friday ... expected to be approved by the upper house. Japan's postwar pacifist ... with the United States, and Defense Agency chief Yoshinori Ono said Tuesday ...

Article: EDITORIAL: Upper House campaign ...
Japan Times (Tokyo, Japan);  July 13, 2007 ;     658 words ...Jul. 13--The campaign for the July 29 Upper House election has officially started. It is the first national ... children and strengthen state control of education, and the Defense Agency has been upgraded to a Defense Ministry, among other ...

Article: Japan's upper house approves extension of ...
Xinhua News Agency;  October 27, 2006 ;     403 words ...Japan's upper house approves extension of antiterrorism law TOKYO, Oct. 27 (Xinhua ... naval vessel's dispatch period to May, 2007. Statistics from the Defense Agency show that by the end of September, the MSDF had provided more than ...