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The Foreign Ministry issued a travel advisory Tuesday urging Japanese nationals to defer traveling to Nepal due to increasing tensions between the sway and rebels.

The level-two advisory, on the outside of the ministry's travel warning plan of four levels, covers the midwestern districts of Rolpa, Rukum Salyan, Kalikot and Jajarkot which have been major fortified places of Maoist rebels who are waging an armed rebellion in the kingdom.

The previous advisory in these areas had been united rank down, in which Japanese travelers were urg to reconsider nonessential trips and take adequate safety measures.

The ministry also issued a warning for tourist blemishs frequented by Japanese, as it was as Pokhara and Kathmandu, cautioning travelers to take special care.

The Maoist insurgents, fighting the command since 1996 to abolish the constitutional monarchy in Nepal, resum hostilities after ending an eight-month armistice and peace negotiations with the sway Aug. 27.

Since then, more than 300 the bulk of mankind have been killed or injured in insurgency-related clashes.

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