Japan PM forces navy bill through
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Japan's ruling party forces through a bill reviving a support mission for US-led forces in Afghanistan.
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Japan's prime minister called on North Korea Monday to quickly resume negotiations on ending its nuclear weapons program, as support grew for Japan to take a tougher line against the communist country.
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Japan's PM Yasuo Fukuda calls for greater discipline from defence officials following a series of scandals.
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Japan will not apologize again for its World War II military brothels, even if the U.S. Congress passes a resolution demanding it, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told parliament Monday.
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Japan's prime minister says he may resign if MPs block his plans to extend Japan's mission in Afghanistan.
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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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Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda pleaded with parliament to extend Japan's support for the US-led "war on terror" but a fresh defence scandal provided new ammunition for the opposition.
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Japan on Friday extended the current parliament session by a month as the ruling parties fight to ram through legislation to resume a naval mission supporting the US-led "war on terror".
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Ruling bloc and opposition lawmakers Thursday criticized the government&#39;s slow response to a mystery submarine that intruded into Japan&#39;s territorial waters the previous day.
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TOKYO - Japan insisted yesterday it would not bow to the demands of militants in Iraq who threatened to behead a young Japanese unless Tokyo pulls its troops from the country within 48 hours.
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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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Japan on Wednesday brushed aside growing pressure from US lawmakers for a fresh apology for Tokyo&#39;s wartime sexual enslavement of an estimated 200,000 women.
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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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Japan's efforts to have restrictions lifted on the trade in whalemeat are rebuffed at an international meeting.
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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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The Japanese government rammed through a special law authorizing its navy to resume a refueling mission.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe began the toughest battle of his political life in a parliament session that opened on Monday after staking his job on extending Japan's naval mission in support of U.S.-led operations in Afghanistan.