Prime Minister Says Japan Remains &quot;Resolute&quot;
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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Sunday vehemently condemned the beheading of a young Japanese backpacker by Muslim extremists in Iraq while vowing that Japan would remain
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Japan&#39;s Prime Minister, Junichiro Koizumi, says his country will never go to war with China, and that bilateral ties are satisfactory.
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Tokyo must keep a thaw in ties with China on track, the frontrunner to be Japan's next prime minister said on Sunday, while urging Beijing to better explain its ballooning military spending.
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TOKYO -- Japan's nationalist prime minister denied yesterday that the country's military forced women into sexual slavery during World War II, casting doubt on a past government apology and jeopardizing a fragile detente with his Asian neighbors.
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A majority of Japanese want their government to get tougher with China and North Korea as support for Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has dipped, an opinion poll showed.
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi leaves behind a legacy of sweeping economic and political reforms.
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Japan will keep its troops in Iraq for another year, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said on Thursday, even though most voters want to end what is the nation&#39;s riskiest military mission since World War II.
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Japan hasn&#39;t confirmed a news report that a body, believed to be that of an Asian male, was found in Iraq, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi told reporters in Tokyo.
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Japan will look again at the facts behind its wartime use of sex slaves, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Thursday, the first step towards a potential revision of a landmark apology.
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Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda on Friday urged calm in a bitter dispute on whaling with Australia, which voiced disappointment as whalers resumed their controversial Antarctic hunt.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday Japan will not apologize again for forcing women to act as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers in World War 2 even if a U.S. House of Representatives resolution demanding an apology is adopted.
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Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda said Friday he wanted his cabinet to stay in place, dismissing reports he would reshuffle his team in January in a bid to bolster flagging support.
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has brushed aside criticism from China and South Korea over his pilgrimage to the Yasukuni war shrine, saying they were &quot;immature&quot;.
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TOKYO : Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has vowed not to pull out its troops in Iraq, despite reports that another of its national has been taken hostage.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe&#39;s  support remains stuck at slightly above 30 percent, which many  analysts consider a crisis level, a survey showed on Monday,  just over a month before an upper house election.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday  that Japan would not apologize again for forcing women, mostly  Asian, to act as wartime sex slaves for its soldiers even if  U.S. lawmakers adopt a resolution calling for an apology.
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Japan's PM Shinzo Abe says there is no evidence to prove women were forced to be sex slaves during World War II.