Koizumi: China and Japan will never fight another war
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Japan&#39;s Prime Minister, Junichiro Koizumi, says his country will never go to war with China, and that bilateral ties are satisfactory.
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NEW YORK-The Iraqi and Afghan leaders both asked Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to continue assisting their war-ravaged countries, Japanese officials said Tuesday.
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Shosei Koda did not go to Iraq to distribute aid, reconstruct the country or strike it rich in the oil business. He was not connected with Japan's government or its armed forces.
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Japan&#39;s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sternly rebuked his defence minister Monday for suggesting that the US atomic bombings of Japan were the inevitable way of ending World War II.
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Russia and China - former Cold War foes - will hold an unprecedented military exercise in the second half of 2005. The war game, involving naval ships and aircraft, will take place on Chinese territory, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov said.
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi should stop visiting a shrine China say symbolizes Japan&#39;s militaristic past as it hurts business ties, Kakutaro Kitashiro, chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives said.
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China&#39;s new ambassador to Japan, Wang Yi, has given his first press conference in Tokyo. He called on the Japanese government to handle its past war crimes with responsibility, and respect the One China principle.
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, right, on board a patrol boat off the Hokkaido coast. Picture:Reuters. Japan&#39;s Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has defied Russian objections to sail
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Japan and China should try to resolve their differences calmly, China'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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Koizumi's visits to Japan's controversial war shrine leave his successor with a conundrum
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Japan&#39;s armed forces must contribute to global peace to secure safety at home, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Sunday amid signs his government will extend an unpopular military deployment in Iraq.
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China has no plans to carry out another test of an anti-satellite weapon, Japan's former defense chief said Monday, citing a conversation with the Chinese defense minister.
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TOKYO : Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has vowed not to pull out its troops in Iraq, despite reports that another of its national has been taken hostage.
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Japan&#39;s Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura has urged the captors of Shosei Koda in Iraq to set him free. In an interview to Aljazeera&#39;s correspondent in Tokyo on Wednesday, he said, &quot;Koda is a civilian who
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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi refused to withdraw Japanâs troops from Iraq, rejecting demands by Iraqi militants who have threatened to behead a Japanese civilian unless the soldiers left.
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Japan won&#39;t yield to terrorism or withdraw its troops from Iraq, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said, in response to reports an Iraqi group kidnapped a Japanese man.
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A senior Chinese defense strategist has said his nation needs to build offensive strength and an "effective nuclear force" but has no intention of renouncing its no-first-use nuclear doctrine.