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TOKYO : Japan was on alert after a suspected Chinese nuclear submarine entered its territorial waters, prompting Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to voice concern, officials and reports said.
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CHINA has admitted a &quot;regrettable&quot; intrusion by one of its nuclear-powered submarines into Japanese territorial waters last week.
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TOKYO, Nov. 12 -- Japan lodged a formal protest with the Chinese government on Friday after determining that an unidentified nuclear submarine that entered its territorial waters this week belonged to China.
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Japan will protest to China after concluding that a nuclear-powered submarine that intruded into its waters this week belonged to the Chinese navy, top government spokesman Hiroyuki Hosoda said on Friday.
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Japan was on alert after a suspected Chinese nuclear submarine entered its territorial waters, setting off a chase on the high sea amid mounting disputes between the Asian powers.
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Japan was on alert after a suspected Chinese nuclear submarine entered its waters near a disputed gasfield, setting off a high seas chase amid mounting disputes between the two countries.
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The Japanese prime minister risked causing a diplomatic incident with Moscow yesterday by taking a boat trip to inspect islands that have been at the centre of a territorial dispute since the second world war.
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China has admitted that one of its submarines accidentally intruded into Japanese waters last week and has apologised for the incident, Japan&#39;s top government spokesman Hiroyuki Hosoda says.
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BEIJING -- China expressed regret through diplomatic channels yesterday that one of its nuclear-powered submarines intruded into Japanese territorial waters last week for &quot;technical reasons,&quot; Japanese officials said.
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Japan lodged a formal protest with the Chinese government on Friday after determining that an unidentified nuclear submarine that entered its territorial waters this week belonged to China.
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By Kozo Mizoguchi Associated Press  TOKYO -- Japan has launched a satellite-based alert system that will instantly send warnings of tsunamis and updates on volcanic activity to help speed evacuations, an emergency official said.
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Text of report in English by Japanese news agency Kyodo  Kagoshima, Japan, 13 September: The Japanese and South Korean coast guards held a joint sea rescue exercise Wednesday [13 September] in the East China Sea.
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The Japanese navy was mobilized on Wednesday for the first time in five years after an unidentified submarine was spotted in waters off Japan.
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Japan&#39;s navy went on alert yesterday when an unidentified submarine made a brief incursion into the country&#39;s southern waters near Okinawa, and Tokyo was trying to determine where the vessel came from.
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Japan's Coast Guard Sunday dispatched patrol ships and aircraft after spotting a boat carrying Chinese activists to a group of disputed islands claimed by Japan, China and Taiwan.
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Japan said on Wednesday it found   radioactive matter from water samples taken around a U.S.   nuclear-powered submarine off its eastern coast, but the amount   was small and posed no harm to humans or the environment.
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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.