As North Korea Thaws, Japan Loses Out
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While the six-party talks are making headway on the North's nuclear weapons, for Japan the more contentious issue is what happened to its citizens kidnapped by the regime
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South Korea and Japan are striving to convince the United States to keep alive a suspended project to build two light-water reactors in energy-starved North Korea, despite the lingering dispute over its nuclear weapons programs.
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Japan protested to North Korea on  Wednesday after finding the communist state had provided fake  evidence about the fate of Japanese citizens it had abducted.
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Japan decided Friday to delay imposing economic sanctions on North Korea, a move the isolated communist nation had said it would consider a declaration of war.
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While talks between the U.S. and North Korea seem to be progressing, Tokyo and Pyongyang are at an impasse
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Japan says it is lodging a strong protest with North Korea over what Tokyo sees as its lack of co-operation over missing Japanese.
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North Korea threatened yesterday to turn Japan into a &quot;nuclear sea of fire&quot; if it comes under attack from the United States.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe left on Sunday for a summit with Chinese leaders at which he will seek a thaw in ties chilled by the wartime past, and consult on North Korea's nuclear threat.
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Japan's cabinet has approved additional   financial sanctions against North Korea, to put further   pressure on Pyongyang to return to six-party talks aimed at   dismantling its nuclear program.
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Leaving behind a region set on edge by  North Korean missile launches, Japanese Prime Minister  Junichiro Koizumi departed on Tuesday for an increasingly tense  Middle East to call for more efforts toward regional peace.
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Japan will respond ``severely&#39;&#39; to North Korea&#39;s failure to provide evidence there are no more Japanese abductees left alive in that country, said Hiroyuki Hosoda, Japan&#39;s chief government spokesman.
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TOKYO  - Japan has taken another step away from its post-World War II pacifism with the ending of its decades-old ban on military exports and telling defense planners to regard China and North Korea as potential threats.
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HAMBURG, Germany  - EU efforts to speed action on climate change took a blow on Tuesday when Japan refused to follow the EU line on how to establish a new international regime once the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012.
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TOKYO: Japan took another step away from its post-World War II pacifism on Friday by ending its decades-old ban on military exports and telling defense planners to regard China and North Korea as potential threats.
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North Korea declined a request to resume talks aimed at persuading the communist nation to abandon its nuclear weapons program, Japan&#39;s government spokesman Hiroyuki Hosoda said.
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Tokyo needs to bolster its missile defence to counter the threat from North Korea, Japan's defence ministry says.
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Japan and North Korea held a second day of talks Sunday in a dispute over Japanese nationals abducted by the North decades ago. Japan seized the occasion to express concern North