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U.S. Ambassador Caroline Kennedy used personal email for official business: audit

August 25, 2015 admin arrests, crime, employees, hotel, japan, japan-caroline, jeffrey-hurant, largest, manhattan, millennium, seen-carrying, tokyo

U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy used her personal email for official business despite a State Department policy advising employees generally to avoid this, an internal audit released on Tuesday said. The State Department's Office of Inspector General made the finding in a routine report on the Tokyo embassy as the agency is under scrutiny for Hillary Clinton's use of a private email address and server when she was secretary of state

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Global business groups urge China to suspend bank IT rules

April 13, 2015 admin europe, harpercollins, japan, man-looking, obama, president, said-it-had, several-recent, singapore, united-states

By Krista Hughes WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Business associations from the United States, Japan and Europe told Chinese officials on Monday they still have “strong concerns” about bank information technology rules and urged Beijing to formally suspend them. The joint letter, from 31 trade associations, increases pressure over rules pushing China's state-owned banks to buy technology from domestic vendors, which the U.S. trade office has said could breach China's international trade commitments

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Japan, wary of North Korea, works to secure infrastructure after Sony attack

December 24, 2014 publisher chief-cabinet, district-judge, facebook, formulate-its, japan, largely-denied, nobuhiro-kubo, north-korean, other-users, picture, pictures, reuters, secretary, secretary-suga, sony

By Tim Kelly and Nobuhiro Kubo TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan, fearing it could be a soft target for possible North Korean cyberattacks in the escalating row over the Sony Pictures hack, has begun working to ensure basic infrastructure is safe and to formulate its diplomatic response, officials said. The hacking of the U.S. …

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Sony hack puts Japan’s Abe in bind over North Korea abductee talks

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By Linda Sieg TOKYO (Reuters) – U.S. accusations that North Korea was behind the cyberattack on Sony Pictures could force Japan to choose between backing its ally Washington and keeping talks on track with Pyongyang about Japanese citizens abducted decades ago. Washington is weighing how to punish North Korea after the FBI concluded Pyongyang was responsible, including possibly returning North Korea to the U.S.