Japan, North Korea to Discuss Abductees
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Japan and North Korea are scheduled to hold talks this week on Japanese citizens kidnaped by Pyongyang decades ago who remain missing.
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Japan&#39;s Foreign Ministry is preparing to hold bilateral talks with North Korea this month, as hopes fade for six-nation talks to take place before November.
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Japan and North Korea will resume talks on Thursday aimed at working toward establishing diplomatic relations after discord over Japanese abducted by Pyongyang suspended the first day of discussions.
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North Korea should immediately provide information on Japanese citizens it kidnapped in the 1970s and '80s, rather than waiting for Tokyo to set a deadline, the prime minister said Tuesday.
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Japan sought international help on  Thursday for a Japanese man held hostage in Iraq, with less  than 24 hours to go for a deadline set by his captors to behead  him unless Tokyo pulled out its troops.
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Japanese and North Korean envoys began a new round of talks Saturday on a dispute over Japanese nationals abducted by the North&#39;s agents decades ago, and the chief Japanese delegate
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Japan said on Friday it would urge North Korea to reinvestigate the fate of Japanese citizens abducted decades ago, and threatened to take &quot;harsh&quot; action unless the reclusive communist state responded &quot;sincerely&quot;.
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Japan will ask North Korea to relaunch probes into the fate of Japanese citizens it abducted after false evidence presented earlier led to calls for sanctions against the communist state, reports said.
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Japanese and North Korean diplomats met on Tuesday to smooth the way toward improving relations, but Tokyo said it would not establish ties until the issue of its citizens abducted by Pyongyang was resolved.
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While the U.S. and others focus on North Korea's nuclear weapons, Japan is worried that the issue of North Korea's abduction of its citizens is falling by the wayside
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Efforts to rescue a Japanese hostage in Iraq continued Wednesday with a call from Japan&#39;s foreign minister on the abductors to free the young man while the British hostage in
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TOKYO - The Japanese government was trying to confirm Friday if a body believed to be of an Asian person reportedly found in northern Iraq is that of a Japanese traveler held hostage in Iraq after the kidnappers&#39; 48-hour deadline for beheading him
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Japanese and North Korean diplomats met  on Tuesday to smooth the way toward improving relations, but  Tokyo said it would not establish ties until the issue of its  citizens abducted by Pyongyang was resolved.
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Talks on North Korea's nuclear programme face problems over Pyongyang's energy demands, Japan says.
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Japan and North Korea will resume talks on Thursday toward establishing diplomatic relations after discord over Japanese abducted by Pyongyang suspended the first day of discussions, Japan's chief negotiator said.
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Japan is trying to agree on dates for  fence-mending summits between its new prime minister, Shinzo  Abe, and the leaders of China and South Korea, a senior  Japanese foreign ministry official said on Monday.
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Japanese and North Korean negotiators held a second day of talks in Beijing as part of an effort by Tokyo to get more information on the fate of Japanese nationals kidnapped by North Korean agents decades ago.