Japan's prime minister seeks to mend ties, bolster military
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TOKYO -- Japan's new nationalist prime minister pledged yesterday to make his country a decisive force on the international stage and push for a reduction in tensions with China and South Korea.
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Japan and the United States will call for greater cooperation between troops of the two nations to address regional threats in a joint security statement to be released in February, a news report said.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held talks with Chinese leaders in Beijing on Sunday, seeking a thaw in relations chilled by wartime history and consulting his hosts on North Korea's nuclear threat.
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China's foreign minister has called for friendly ties with Japan on a feel-good visit to Tokyo aimed at further repairing a relationship strained just months ago.
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Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura said it is crucial to restart six-way talks on North Korea&#39;s nuclear-weapons program by the end of the year if possible, a Japanese government official told a news briefing.
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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Thursday he hopes to further develop Japanese-US ties through his close personal relationship with President George W. Bush, who was re-elected in a neck and neck race with Democratic challenger Sen. John Kerry.
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Front-runner Shinzo Abe has opened his bid to become Japan's next prime minister with calls for a more assertive nation but also better relations with Asian neighbors.
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The leaders of Japan and South Korea agree to meet, in a bid to repair their countries' strained ties.
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Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is working to woo Japanese investors, hoping that a warming political relationship will add sparkle to lackluster economic ties.
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Japan said on Wednesday that its ties with Washington would not be shaken by a U.S. Congressional move to seek an apology for forcing women to serve as sex slaves during World War Two.
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Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and the  leader of Japan's main opposition party met on Tuesday but  failed to break a stalemate over extending a naval mission  supporting U.S.-led Afghan operations.
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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 announces key changes in its defence stance, including a bigger role in global military cooperation.
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Tokyo must keep a thaw in ties with China on track, the frontrunner to be Japan's next prime minister said on Sunday, while urging Beijing to better explain its ballooning military spending.
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TOKYO -- Seeking to mend Japan's deteriorating relations with its chief Asian neighbors, Japanese officials on Monday said they were pushing for rapid summit meetings between freshly inaugurated Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his counterparts in China and South Korea.
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Shinzo Abe, the front-runner to become Japan's new prime minister, called Friday for his country to build a stronger military as a deterrent and to push ahead with economic reforms as candidates launched their campaigns to lead the governing party.
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Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda played a friendly game of catch on his visit to China on Saturday, a symbol of warming ties between the North Asian rivals despite an intractable row over gas resources in disputed waters.