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    TOKYO, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- Japan will ban the exports of 24 items of luxury goods including cars, fur products, caviar to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) from Wednesday, as part of the sanctions against the DPRK's recent nuclear test, Kyodo News said.

    The Cabinet adopted Tuesday morning the list of the luxury goods embargoed for exports to the DPRK. Japan will keep close consultations with the United States and other countries to make sanctions more effective, Akira Amari, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry said after the Cabinet meeting.

    Japan's exports of high-quality beef, fatty tuna meat, caviar, tobacco, fur products, cars, motorcycles, jewelry, watches, audiovisual equipment and art objects and other luxuries to the DPRK in 2005 were worth some 1.1 billion yen (about 9.4 million U.S. dollars), according to Amari.

    Days after the DPRK's announcement on Oct. 9 that it carried out its first nuclear test, Japan imposed a number of economic sanction measures on the country, including a six-month ban on imports from the DPRK, and a block of the DPRK nationals and ships from entering Japan.