China regrets submarine&#39;s intrusion, Japan says
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China expressed regret through diplomatic channels yesterday that one of its nuclear-powered submarines intruded into Japanese territorial
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Japan has brushed off a North Korean statement saying it would consider sanctions imposed by Tokyo &quot;a declaration of war,&quot; and renewed calls for penalties on the North for failing to account fully for Japanese citizens it abducted decades ago.
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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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After days of speculation and a chase by Japanese destroyers and a surveillance plane, it has finally been determined that the nuclear submarine that intruded into Japanese territorial water between Okinawa and Taiwan was Chinese.
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Japan lodged a formal protest with Beijing on Friday after determining that a nuclear submarine that entered its territorial waters without identifying itself belonged to China.
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China voiced deep concern on Saturday over Japan's sweeping overhaul of defense policy that eased a decades-old ban on arms exports and suggested a shift from a defensive posture in place since its World War II defeat.
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TOKYO -- China expressed regret today over what it called an accidental incursion by one of its submarines into Japanese waters last week, Japan&#39;s foreign minister said, the first time Beijing has acknowledged the submarine was one of its own.
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THE detection of a foreign submarine in Japan&#39;s southern coastal waters threatens to aggravate tensions between Tokyo and Beijing.
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China has expressed regret for the intrusion of one of its subs into Japanese waters last week, Tokyo says.
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Japan&#39;s Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura launched a strong protest against the Chinese government and demanded an apology on Friday over an incident in which a submarine deemed to be of Chinese origin infiltrated Japanese waters.
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TOKYO, Nov. 12 -- Japan lodged a formal protest with the Chinese government on Friday after determining that an unidentified nuclear submarine that entered its territorial waters this week belonged to China.
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Japan will protest to China after concluding that a nuclear-powered submarine that intruded into its waters earlier this week belonged to the Chinese navy, Japan's top government spokesman Hiroyuki Hosoda said on Friday.
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A submarine that intruded into waters off Japan earlier this week has been identified as Chinese, Japan's top government spokesman Hiroyuki Hosoda said on Friday, adding that Tokyo would protest to Beijing.
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Japan is to formally protest to China after saying a submarine found in its waters on Wednesday was Chinese.
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Japan continued Friday to monitor the movements of an unidentified submarine that entered its waters briefly Wednesday, to see if it entered Chinese waters.
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Japan&#39;s navy is chasing an unidentified submarine which was spotted inside the country&#39;s waters on Wednesday. The Japanese defence agency reportedly believes the sub is Chinese because of its cruising sound
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Japan&#39;s navy went on alert yesterday when an unidentified submarine made a brief incursion into the country&#39;s southern waters near Okinawa, and Tokyo was trying to determine where the vessel came from.