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Credit: Reuters/Issei Kato By Chisa Fujioka and Matt Spetalnick TOKYO | Sun Apr 17, 2011 3:03am EDT TOKYO (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Sunday urged Japan to remain active on the world stage as it grappled with a nuclear crisis in the wake of a deadly earthquake and tsunami and she pledged support for Washington's key ally in East Asia. Her comments came as the operator of the nuclear plant crippled in the March 11 disaster said it hoped to achieve a cold shutdown -- effectively making the reactors safe and stable -- within six to nine months. "Economically, diplomatically and in so many other ways, Japan is indispensable to global problem-solving," Clinton told a news conference after talks with Japanese Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto. "And the U.S.-Japan alliance is as indispensable as ever to global security and progress." Clinton also said Japan and the United States had agreed to create a "public-private partnership for reconstruction" under the guidance of Japan's government, and that U.S. firms and organizations would begin discussing how they can support Japan as it comes through the crisis. Soon after she spoke the operator of the plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO), gave a briefing outlining its plan to bring the plant to cold shutdown and end the immediate nuclear crisis. Clinton arrived in Japan, which is still reeling from the triple disaster nearly five weeks later, on the final leg of a global trek that took her to Berlin for NATO talks on the Libya conflict and to Seoul to tackle the North Korean nuclear stand-off. The quake and tsunami killed up to 28,000 people, and, with the resulting nuclear crisis, seriously rattled the world's third-largest economy. Damages from the quake and tsunami have been estimated at $300 billion, making it the world's costliest natural disaster. Washington has deployed thousands of troops plus military aircraft and navy ships to help with relief work in the devastated northeastern part of the island nation. Clinton said there was no reason for Americans to stay away from Japan, other than the area around the nuclear plant. "We have encouraged businesses and other Americans to go on with their normal lives and to travel to Japan for business and other reasons," she said. Clinton is the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit in a gesture of solidarity with Japan, one of Washington's closest Asian allies, since it was engulfed in its worst crisis since World War Two. Her 5-1/2-hour stop comes after a week in which the Japanese government put its nuclear calamity on a par with the world's worst nuclear disaster, Chernobyl, after new data showed that more radiation had leaked from its crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant than first thought. Kan has insisted the nuclear situation is slowly stabilizing and the country must now focus on recovery from the 9.0-magnitude quake and the tsunami it unleashed. "I believe ... this difficult period will provide us with a precious window of opportunity to secure the 'Rebirth of Japan'," Kan wrote in an editorial in the online version of Sunday's International Herald Tribune newspaper. 1 2 Next World Japan Natural Disasters Steve Jobs Nuclear Power Tweet this Share this Link this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story directly or with relevant tangential information. We try to block comments that use offensive language, all capital letters or appear to be spam, and we review comments frequently to ensure they meet our standards. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. 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