Ukraine

BIZ BRIEF: Toyota to export U.S.-made Venza to...
February 27, 2013
Toyota Motor Corp. announced Feb. 26 that its U.S. sales subsidiary, Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. Inc., will begin exports to Russia and Ukraine in April of its Venza crossover...
Chernobyl: Unlikely tour destination that draws...
A participant of a tour around the Chernobyl nuclear plant poses for a photo with the No. 4 reactor, which exploded in the 1986 disaster, in the background. (Kazuhiro Sekine)
February 03, 2013
CHERNOBYL, Ukraine--Tours to the site of a nuclear disaster might not be on everyone’s list of must-places to visit.
U.N. says N. Korea shipped arms to Syria in May
In this April 15, 2012, file photo, a North Korean vehicle carrying a missile passes by during a mass military parade in Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square. The enormous 16-wheel truck used to carry the missile was found to be exported from China. (AP photo)
November 15, 2012
NEW YORK--North Korea violated a United Nations Security Council resolution by shipping ballistic missile-related items to war-torn Syria in May, according to sources citing a...
BIZ BRIEF: Sumitomo to deliver Toyota Prius to...
August 31, 2012
Sumitomo Corp. on Aug. 29 signed a $34-million (2.65 billion yen) agreement with Derzhekoinvest based in Kiev to deliver about 1,200 police-specification Prius vehicles for a...
Tymoshenko loses appeal, stays in Ukraine jail
Ukrainian former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, left (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
August 29, 2012
KIEV -- A Ukrainian high court rejected an appeal on Aug. 29 by former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko against her conviction for abuse of office, leaving her in jail and...
Japan writers' group gets eye-opener in Chernobyl
A Ferris wheel stands in an amusement park in Prypyat, 3 kilometers from Chernobyl, Ukraine, on April 19. The Chernobyl nuclear plant accident occurred immediately before the planned opening of the amusement park. (Provided by Akira Nogami)
May 02, 2012
If the pen is mightier than the sword, then senior members of the Japan writers' P.E.N. Club, who visited the shuttered Chernobyl nuclear power plant in mid-April, are now...
Ukraine begins construction of shelter over...
A concrete sarcophagus covers the crippled No. 4 reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
April 27, 2012
MOSCOW--Construction began April 26 to assemble a shelter to contain radioactive materials at the stricken Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine.
Ukraine officials: Chernobyl decontamination...
Ukraine officials speak about the 1986 Chernobyl disaster at a meeting on March 19 of a special panel in the Diet looking into the accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant. (Satoru Semba)
March 20, 2012
A Ukrainian official, citing the Chernobyl disaster as an example, said Japan must continue monitoring radiation levels around the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant because...
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