Koizumi set to anger neighbors one last time with shrine visit
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With stubborn defiance, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is expected to visit a war shrine Tuesday on a sensitive anniversary, angering Asian neighbors one last time before stepping down.
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Japanese Defence Minister Fumio Kyuma will step down over his remarks suggesting that the US atomic bombings of Japan were the inevitable way to end World War II, national broadcaster NHK reported Tuesday.
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The Prime Minister vowed to restore Japan's place on the world stage. His resignation may be a sign that domestic concerns will turn the country inward again
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Baghdad - A senior Sunni religious figure vented his outrage on Friday against those behind a double suicide bombing the previous day that left scores of children dead in Baghdad.
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Japan's former prime minister Junichiro Koizumi is weighing a third visit to North Korea to persuade the communist regime to give up its nuclear ambitions, public NHK broadcaster reported.
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Japanâs nationalists are fanning fury over abductions decades ago by North Korea, still a burning issue.
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Yasuo Fukuda, the front-runner to be Japan&#39;s next prime minister, pledged Sunday to strengthen ties with China and said he would not visit a war shrine seen as a symbol of Tokyo&#39;s wartime past.
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Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set for a rocky appearance before Australia's parliament with war veterans on Tuesday calling for an apology over Japanese war crimes and environmentalists demanding an end to whaling.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao asked Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to stop visiting a war shrine in Tokyo that China and other Asian nations say symbolizes Japan&#39;s militaristic past, a Japanese official said.
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SANTIAGO : Chinese President Hu Jintao has told Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi that his visits to a shrine honouring Japan&#39;s war dead including war criminals are the &quot;crux&quot; of the problem in Sino-Japanese ties.
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The killing of a gang leader in Japan triggers fears of an escalating turf war between rival groups.
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Taiwan&#39;s former president Lee Teng-hui on Saturday fired a defiant shot at China during a visit to Japan, urging Tokyo to take a harder line in an emotive row over a war shrine.
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi vowed to step up economic and security ties with Canada before heading off for a farewell summit with US President George W. Bush.
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The director and producers of  a documentary about Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, where convicted  war criminals are among the 2.5 million venerated souls, have  received multiple death threats from right-wing groups that  want to prevent the movie's local release.
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Iraqi political and religious leaders  prepared to go to the holy city of Najaf on Tuesday in a  last-ditch bid to persuade a radical Shi'ite cleric to end a  rebellion that has killed hundreds and rattled oil markets.
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Death row inmate Yoshio Fujinami had  hoped his execution would be the last carried out in Japan.
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Junichiro Koizumi indulged his love for classical music, joked with fellow leaders and was snubbed by angry neighbors during his last overseas tour as prime minister.