Japan raises submarine issue with China: report
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TOKYO  - Japan took up with China the issue of a suspicious submarine that intruded into its waters amid alarm in Tokyo that the vessel was a show of strength from its neighbour and growing competitor.
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Facing strong protests, China broke a week-long silence Tuesday and offered Japan its first explanation about a Chinese submarine that Tokyo said intruded into Japanese territorial
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Japan plans to raise the missile issue during talks with North Korea in Beijing, China this weekend. While the main agenda of the contact surrounds Pyongyang&#39;s abductions of Japanese citizens back in the 1970s
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There is a military alert in Japan after an unidentified submarine is detected inside the country's waters.
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Japan has determined that a submarine that briefly entered Japanese territorial waters earlier this week without identifying itself came from China, an official said Friday.
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TOKYO - Japan and China should try to resolve their differences calmly, China&#39;s ambassador to Japan said Saturday, a day after Tokyo filed a protest with Beijing over the intrusion of a Chinese nuclear submarine.
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Japan is planning to beef up its defense against cruise missiles in response to China's growing air strike capabilities, the Yomiuri newspaper reported on Sunday.
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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has said he will bring up the intrusion of a Chinese submarine in Japanese waters when he meets Chinese President Hu Jintao this weekend in their first meeting in a year.
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Japan is seeking to identify the submarine that was detected yesterday near the southern island chain of Okinawa, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokuki Hosoda said.
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Japan said China apologized on Tuesday  for the intrusion by one of its submarines into Japanese waters  last week in a gesture that defuses a dispute and may open the  way for a bilateral summit this week.
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Japan is to formally protest to China after saying a submarine found in its waters on Wednesday was Chinese.
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China has admitted that its submarine  intruded into Japanese waters last week and apologized over the  incident, Japan's top government spokesman Hiroyuki Hosoda told  a news conference Tuesday.
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China has voiced concern over Japan&#39;s overhaul of defence policy that eased a decades-old ban on arms exports and suggested a shift from a defensive posture.
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Japan kept up the pressure on North Korea over its nuclear weapons and missiles and expressed concern about the lack of transparency on China's burgeoning military spending in a government defense paper published on Friday.
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Japanese Defense Minister Fumio Kyuma   said on Friday that China's military build-up was a concern   rather than a threat, retracting earlier comments that had   triggered a rebuttal from Beijing.
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JAPAN lodged a formal protest with Beijing yesterday, claiming that a Chinese submarine had entered its territorial waters. Japanâs navy has been on alert since Wednesday when the submarine was first spotted off the island of Okinawa.
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Japan continued Friday to monitor the movements of an unidentified submarine that entered its waters briefly Wednesday, to see if it entered Chinese waters.