Cheney promises help for Japanese abductees
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US Vice President Dick Cheney promised Thursday to help the parents of a Japanese girl abducted by North Korea in the 1970s as the emotionally charged row cast a shadow over a nuclear deal with Pyongyang.
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Vice President Dick Cheney warned Monday that al-Qaida was regrouping in Pakistan's remote border area and sought President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's help in a stiffened push against Taliban and al-Qaida militants, officials said.
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Japan will next week release its evaluation of an investigation by North Korea into the fate of Japanese citizens its agents abducted in the 1970s and 1980s, Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura said.
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SYDNEY: US Vice President Dick Cheney wrapped up a week-long visit to Japan and Australia, a mission to reassure two strong allies buffeted by Washington's strategies for Iraq and North Korea.
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While the U.S. and others focus on North Korea's nuclear weapons, Japan is worried that the issue of North Korea's abduction of its citizens is falling by the wayside
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Japan scrambled Wednesday to win the release a 24-year old Japanese man taken hostage by Islamic militants in Iraq, dispatching high level diplomats to the middle east and launching an appeal for his freedom on Arabic television.
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Vice President Dick Cheney, who visited Asia-Pacific allies Japan and Australia last week, left Singapore on Sunday afternoon after his plane underwent minor repairs and refueled.
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Japan has made little progress contacting the kidnappers of one of its citizens or determining where the man is being held, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said.
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TOKYO Japanese leaders are struggling to make contact with Islamic militants in Iraq holding a Japanese traveler hostage. The Japanese government says it has few details on the kidnapping of the 24-year-old tourist.
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Vice President Dick Cheney arrived Tuesday for a meeting with the emperor, dinner with the prime minister and a pep rally for U.S. troops aboard the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk.
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Japan's government was still in the dark  about a Japanese held hostage in Iraq on Thursday, less than 24  hours before a deadline set by his captors, who have threatened  to behead the young man unless Japan withdraws its troops.
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Japan&#39;s Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura has urged Islamic militants in Iraq to release a Japanese hostage, in an interview with the Arabic satellite network Al-Jazeera.
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Vice President Dick Cheney arrived in Japan on Tuesday on a visit to reassure America's close ally that a troop buildup will help quell violence in Iraq, just weeks after Japan's defense minister said starting the war was a mistake.
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Japanese leaders struggled on Thursday to make contact with Islamic militants in Iraq who took a Japanese traveler hostage as the 48-hour deadline approached for the young man's threatened beheading. Tokyo stood firm in its refusal to meet the kidnappers' demand to withdraw troops from Iraq.
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Japan sought international and Iraqi help  for a Japanese man held hostage in Iraq on Thursday, less than  24 hours before a deadline set by his captors to behead him  unless Japan withdraws its troops.
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The front-runner to become Japan's next prime minister vowed Saturday to extend his nation's support for U.S.-led operations in Afghanistan.
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BAGHDAD: A body found in Iraq cannot be confirmed as that of a young Japanese man taken hostage and the corpse has been sent to Qatar for identification, Japan&#39;s Senior Vice Foreign Minister Shuzen Tanigawa said yesterday.