Japan PM forces navy bill through
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Japan forces through a bill allowing a naval support mission for US-led forces in Afghanistan to resume.
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, right, on board a patrol boat off the Hokkaido coast. Picture:Reuters. Japan&#39;s Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has defied Russian objections to sail
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A U.N. resolution to be adopted this month could help clear the way for Japan to extend its naval mission in support of U.S.-led military operations in Afghanistan -- a move keenly sought by Washington, a diplomatic source said.
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TOKYO - Yasuo Fukuda swept to power as Japan's prime minister yesterday, promising to use his skills as a negotiator to win approval for extending Tokyo's contentious mission in support of US troops in Afghanistan.
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Japanese lawmakers on Wednesday approved a two-year extension of the country's air force transport mission in Iraq, despite criticism of Tokyo's involvement in the increasingly unpopular war.
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Embattled Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Wednesday he would resign in hope of making it easier to extend a naval mission in support of U.S.-led operations in Afghanistan, sending shockwaves through Japan.
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Japan lodged a formal protest with Beijing on Friday after determining that a nuclear submarine that entered its territorial waters without identifying itself belonged to China.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is staking his job on Japan's continued support of the coalition forces in Afghanistan. But it's matters closer to home that threaten him most
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TOKYO, March 1 -- Japan's prime minister denied Thursday 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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TOKYO - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi vowed on Sunday that Japanese troops would continue their domestically unpopular mission in Iraq after Islamic militants demanding a pullout killed a 24-year-old Japanese tourist.
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Japan's government rushed to clean up a damaging political scandal Friday, pushing bills to fix pension system errors through parliament's lower house and replacing a Cabinet minister who committed suicide.
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Japanâs ruling party was expected to push into law a bill to revive a naval mission to support U.S.-led forces.
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Japan&#39;s prime minister Sunday has vowed to make the country&#39;s defense forces better able to fight terrorism and any attackers who would use weapons of mass destruction.
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Japan's PM Yasuo Fukuda fails to get opposition agreement to continue a support mission for Afghanistan.
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Wearing a white windbreaker to protect him from the Siberian wind, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi stood on the bridge of a Japanese Coast Guard patrol boat on Thursday
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Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda of Japan voiced anger Tuesday over the alleged rape of a 14-year-old girl in Okinawa by a United States marine.
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After the arrest of a U.S. Marine accused of raping a 14-year-old girl on the southern island of Okinawa, Japanâs prime minister calls the situation âunforgivable.â