Koizumi&#39;s visit to shrine ruled official
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A supporter of 63 plaintiffs raises a banner saying &quot;unfair judgement&quot; outside the Chiba District Court in Chiba, Japan, Thursday Nov. 25, 2004.
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Yasuo Fukuda, the frontrunner to succeed Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, said on Saturday that he would stay away from a Tokyo shrine seen by Asian neighbors as a symbol of Japan's past militarism if he were chosen as the nation's new leader.
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TOKYO - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi vowed on Sunday that Japanese troops would continue their domestically unpopular mission in Iraq after Islamic militants demanding a pullout killed a 24-year-old Japanese tourist.
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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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TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is set to reshuffle his cabinet on Monday in order to gain the leverage to silence critics within his ruling party of his unpopular reform plan.
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Japanese PM Junichiro Koizumi is to announce a reshuffled cabinet aimed at boosting his reform plans.
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NEW YORK (Kyodo) Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi voiced Japan&#39;s desire Tuesday to become a permanent member of the UN Security Council, making his first strong pitch before the UN General Assembly and indicating the Constitution will not be revised to
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TOKYO -- Every morning for the last three months, Yuko Tojo has prayed at a war shrine for Japan's fallen soldiers, including her grandfather, General Hideki Tojo, the executed World War II prime minister who ordered the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
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With an eye to North Korea and China, Prime Minister Koizumi&#39;s Cabinet is set to pass new guidelines Friday. By Bennett Richardson | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor.
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Japan will set up a task force to consider allowing a reigning empress, an official said Monday - the government's first review of a post-World War II law that limits imperial succession to men.
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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Sunday repeated his vow to keep about 550 troops in Iraq after the government confirmed that the decapitated body found on a street
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Foreign Affairs Minister Ban Ki-moon sent a letter of comfort to Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura, regarding the murder of Japanese hostage Shosei Koda in Iraq.
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High commissioner visits officials in Islamabad following reported remark by Pakistan minister that knighthood could justify suicide attacks.
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi  reiterated on Wednesday that he wanted at some point to visit  Iraq, where Japanese troops are engaged in reconstruction work.
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KUWAIT CITY : Japan&#39;s Senior Vice Foreign Minister Shuzen Tanigawa arrived in Kuwait to supervise arrangements for the repatriation of the body of Japanese tourist Shosei Koda who was beheaded by militants in Iraq.
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Japan's PM Junichiro Koizumi takes a boat trip to view the Russian-held Kuril islands, which Tokyo lays claim to.
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TOKYO: Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi appeared on Monday to have won public backing for his refusal to pull Japanese troops out of Iraq despite the weekend beheading of a Japanese hostage.