Japan negotiating summits with China, S.Korea
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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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Japan's leader Shinzo Abe will hold summits next week with both China and S Korea, all three nations confirm.
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North Korea's nuclear envoy arrived in Beijing on Tuesday as chief negotiators from China, the United States, South Korea and Japan were meeting to work out details on the next round of six-nation disarmament talks.
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Talks on North Korea's nuclear programme face problems over Pyongyang's energy demands, Japan says.
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SEOGWIPO, South Korea  - The foreign ministers of South Korea, Japan and China meet on Sunday to try to smooth often prickly ties and help resolve the impasse over the nuclear weapons plans of their neighbor, North Korea.
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Senior officials from the United States,  South Korea and Japan held talks on Friday aimed at arranging a  fresh round of six-party negotiations on dismantling North  Korea's nuclear programs as doubts grew about the outlook for  discussions later this month.
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IBUSUKI, Japan: Japan&#39;s Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura proposed Saturday Japan and South Korea hold talks on a free trade agreement (FTA) as early as January next year.
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South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun was  leaving for a two-day official visit to Japan on Friday for  summit talks that will focus on the North Korean nuclear  problem and Japan's deteriorating ties with the communist  state.
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South Korea is working with its  diplomatic partners to try to hold nuclear talks with North  Korea this month, but recent North Korean comments suggested no  grounds for optimism, the South's foreign minister said on  Friday. There are plans to hold a fourth round of nuclear  negotiations among the two Koreas, the United States, China,  Japan and Russia by the end of September as the countries  agreed at the previous session in June.
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Japan's new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he would soon meet with South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun as he works to patch up strained ties with Seoul and Beijing.
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South Korea and Japan agreed Saturday to try to restart stalled six-party talks concerning North Korea&#39;s nuclear ambitions. North Korea should return to the multilateral
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Japan and North Korea will hold talks on establishing diplomatic relations next week in Ulan Bator, Japanese Foreign Ministry officials said on Tuesday. The two-day talks from September 5 will be held as part of a six-country deal to scrap Pyongyang's nuclear arms programmes in exchange for aid and diplomatic recognition.
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TOKYO - South Korea hopes to break the impasse over North Koreaâs nuclear ambitions through a bilateral summit meeting, according to an interview with South Korean Prime Minister Lee Hai-Chan published in Japan on Friday.
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This week's talks between Japan and North  Korea show efforts to hold more six-party talks on the North's  nuclear plans are gathering pace and most countries want a  meeting before the year ends, South Korea said on Wednesday.
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South Korea and Japan on Friday agreed to conclude negotiations to sign a free trade deal by the end of 2005. President Roh Moo-hyun and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi came up with
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will  visit China on October 8 and South Korea the next day for talks  with their leaders in a bid to repair ties frayed by disputes  over their bitter wartime past, but North Korea's nuclear  threat looks set to grab a prominent place on the agenda.
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This week's talks between Japan and North Korea show that efforts to hold another round of six-party negotiations on the North's nuclear program are gathering pace, South Korea's foreign minister said on Wednesday.