Koizumi warned over war shrine
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China's President Hu Jintao tells Japanese PM Junichiro Koizumi his war shrine visits are hurting bilateral ties.
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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi headed to northern Japan on Tuesday to survey the damage wrought by the deadliest earthquakes to hit the country in nearly a decade, while the death toll from the quakes rose to 31.
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Japan's new prime minister, Shinzo Abe,   pledged on Tuesday to boost his country's role in global   affairs while trying to improve relations with China, frayed by   predecessor Junichiro Koizumi's visits to a Tokyo war shrine.
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi should stop visiting a shrine China say symbolizes Japan&#39;s militaristic past as it hurts business ties, Kakutaro Kitashiro, chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives said.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao ( è¡é¦æ¿¤ ) on Sunday warned Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi that his controversial visits to a shrine honoring war criminals are the &quot;crux&quot; of the problem in Sino-Japanese ties.
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A group led by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab  al-Zarqawi threatened to behead a Japanese hostage in Iraq  unless Japan withdrew its troops, but Prime Minister Junichiro  Koizumi said on Wednesday that Japan's contingent would stay.
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Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso warned  North Korea on Sunday if it launched a missile that dropped on  Japan, Tokyo would regard it as an attack on Japan.
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A group led by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi threatened to behead a Japanese hostage in Iraq if Tokyo did not withdraw its troops, but Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Japan's contingent would stay put.
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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi headed to northern Japan on Tuesday to survey the damage wrought by the deadliest earthquakes to hit the country in nearly a decade, as the death toll rose to 27.
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Japan&#39;s Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura has urged the captors of Shosei Koda in Iraq to set him free. In an interview to Aljazeera&#39;s correspondent in Tokyo on Wednesday, he said, &quot;Koda is a civilian who
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TOKYO - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi reiterated Friday that the government has no plans to ask Yasukuni Shrine to separate the enshrined war dead from convicted Class-A war criminals who were executed after World War II in an effort to mend soured
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NEW YORK-The Iraqi and Afghan leaders both asked Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to continue assisting their war-ravaged countries, Japanese officials said Tuesday.
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Jordanian King Abdullah II expressed deep concerns about the full glare of an escalating Middle East crisis.
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SANTIAGO, Chile-Chinese President Hu Jintao told Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi that his repeated visits to Yasukuni Shrine are the biggest obstacles to improving Japan-China relations.
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi  plans to ask Washington to move some U.S. troops from the  southern island chain of Okinawa to locations outside Japan as  part of the U.S. government's review its global military  forces, Kyodo news agency reported Thursday.
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Yasuo Fukuda, the front-runner to be Japan&#39;s next prime minister, pledged Sunday to strengthen ties with China and said he would not visit a war shrine seen as a symbol of Tokyo&#39;s wartime past.
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China warned Japan on Thursday it was putting relations at risk by allowing former Taiwan president Lee Teng-hui to visit, as Lee courted more controversy by suggesting he might go to a Tokyo war shrine.