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Japan and Russia have agreed to select about 30 priority projects for economic cooperation.
Japan's trade and industry minister Hiroshige Seko and Russia's economic development minister Alexei Ulyukayev signed a joint statement in Moscow on Thursday.
They also agreed to pick model cities in Russia to promote urban development. Japan will teach Russian manufacturers ways to improve productivity.
The two sides agreed on joint petroleum and natural gas development, the introduction of wind power generation in Russia and to share technology to decommission the reactors at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
Published Date:2016-11-04