Japanese disappointed by NKorea deal: poll
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Most Japanese are disappointed with the six-way deal on North Korea's nuclear programme and an overwhelming majority back the government's refusal to fund it, according to a survey.
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Japan pressed on with efforts on Thursday to secure a U.N. condemnation of North Korea's nuclear test threat after Washington, in its starkest warning so far, said it would not live with a nuclear-armed Pyongyang.
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Japan's two largest parties failed to agree Tuesday on continuing a naval mission in the Indian Ocean, dealing a setback to the government which has pledged to support the US-led "war on terror".
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Talks on North Korea's nuclear programme face problems over Pyongyang's energy demands, Japan says.
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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 Korea might be planning a missile test, a newspaper reported.
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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-North Korea talks on normalising ties are cut short for a second day, with no plans for a resumption.
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TOKYO - Japan on Wednesday downplayed North Korea&#39;s criticism of Tokyo for saying that ashes brought from Pyongyang by a Japanese delegation last month are not those of abductee Megumi Yokota as the North claims.
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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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North Korea has hinted at breaking off  talks with Japan over the fate of Japanese citizens abducted  decades ago, saying Pyongyang no longer sees significance in  maintaining contact, Kyodo news agency said on Friday.
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Japan has thrown its support behind South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon to be the next chief of the United Nations, after previous hesitation due to strained ties between the neighbors.
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North Korea and Japan briefly resumed talks Thursday as part of a deal aimed at ending Pyongyang's nuclear programme, a day after they nearly collapsed over the North's abductions of Japanese citizens.
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Talks between Japan and North Korea on normalizing ties ended after only 45 minutes Thursday, leaving wide gaps as their top envoys blamed each other for the lack of agreement on key historical issues.
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North Korea declined a request to resume talks aimed at persuading the communist nation to abandon its nuclear weapons program, Japan&#39;s government spokesman Hiroyuki Hosoda said.
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bones handed over then were not, as Pyongyang claimed, those of the abducted Japanese citizens. &quot;It (North Korea) no longer feels that any DPRK-Japan inter-governmental contact is meaningful,&quot; he added.
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: Talks between Japan and North Korea aimed at resolving a dispute over Japanese nationals abducted by the North decades ago ended Sunday without progress, Japanese officials said.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has suffered another plunge in his popularity, a poll showed Tuesday, as the opposition refused to back down in a row over support for US-led troops in Afghanistan.