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Japan and Australia seek to align on defence as China's regional influence grows
Japan and Australia seek to align on defence as China's regional influence growsTOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and his Australian counterpart, Scott Morrison, may agree an historic defence pact on Tuesday that will closely align two key U.S. allies in Asia as a counter to China's growing influence in the region.
Japan and Australia seek to align on defence as China's regional influence growsTOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and his Australian counterpart, Scott Morrison, may agree an historic defence pact on Tuesday that will closely align two key U.S. allies in Asia as a counter to China's growing influence in the region. London in the frame to host 2020 Olympics as Japan bid probed over secret payments French financial prosecutor has launched an inquiry into two payments Japanese bank account called 'Tokyo 2020 Olympic Game Bid ' probed into two payments from a Japanese bank account called ‘Tokyo 2020 Olympic Game Bid ’
Olympic minister Seiko Hashimoto has told lawmakers that Japan ' s agreement with the IOC potentially allows them to delay the Games taking Japan ' s Board of Audit put government spending between the bid in 2013 and 2018 at 1.06trillion (£7.2bn). Test events for the Olympics have been
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Olympics minister Seiko Hashimoto said it was not the central government's role to look into reports about large payments the Tokyo campaign made to various entities in the run-up to the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) vote in 2013.
© Reuters/KIM KYUNG-HOON Japan's Olympic and Paralympic Games Minister Seiko Hashimoto attends a news conference in Tokyo In response to a question from a lawmaker about Reuters' reporting on the subject, Hashimoto said it was the responsibility of the Japanese Olympic Committee and the Tokyo metropolitan government to explain the bid's activities.
IOC chief Thomas Bach said last week no IOC rules were infringed by payments in 2013 and 2014 totaling more than $8 million from the Tokyo Olympic bid committee to an executive of the Tokyo organising committee.
(Reporting by Mari Saito and Ami Miyazaki; Editing by Kim Coghill)
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