China, Japan seek to keep rapprochement on course
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Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing expressed hope on Friday that a rapprochement in ties with Tokyo would stay on course, but also mentioned the wartime past that haunts relations.
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China and Japan stand at a "new  starting point" in their relations following Japanese Prime  Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to Beijing in October, Chinese  State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan said in remarks published on  Sunday.
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China on Monday emphasized its determination to keep its currency stable despite ongoing pressure from the United States.
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Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda played a friendly game of catch during his visit to China on Saturday, a symbol of warming ties between the North Asian rivals despite a row over gas resources in disputed waters.
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Japan and North Korea held a second day of talks Sunday in a dispute over Japanese nationals abducted by the North decades ago. Japan seized the occasion to express concern North
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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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Japan and China will not hold bilateral talks at an upcoming ASEAN meeting, a Japanese official says, in a sign of continuing tensions between the two.
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China's leaders vowed Sunday to sustain steady economic development and control investment in fixed assets in 2005, state media said.
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Japan is trying to agree on dates for  fence-mending summits between its new prime minister, Shinzo  Abe, and the leaders of China and South Korea, a senior  Japanese foreign ministry official said on Monday.
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TOKYOâFrom submarines to soccer and sex, everything seems to bedevil Japan-China relations these days. And with growing perceptions in Tokyo and Beijing of a military threat from
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China tried to ease Tokyo's worries over its ballooning military spending in a meeting on Thursday at which the Asian rivals' defense ministers agreed to stage the first-ever visit by a Chinese warship to Japan.
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With China's rise looming large over Asia, building an alliance with the continent's other fast-growing giant, India, has turned into a mantra for Japanese policymakers.
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BEIJING, China -- China is battling to keep the North Korea nuclear talks alive, saying it hopes the six nations involved would stay calm and flexible.
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Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda is due in China, on a visit aimed at improving ties between the two countries.
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Newly-crowned Asian champions Japan stayed on course for the 2006 World Cup in convincing fashion while 10-man South Korea as well as China were made to struggle in qualifying matches.
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A rare visit to Japan by a Chinese defense minister has done little to erase mutual suspicion over the Asian rivals' military ambitions, despite his assurances that Beijing poses no threat, Japanese media said on Friday.
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Japan has vowed to pursue its campaign for reform of the UN Security Council from which it hopes to secure a permanent seat on the key body despite opposition from some of its neighbours.