Japan won't compromise on Korea resolution
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Japan won&#039;t compromise on the stern wording of a U.N. resolution that would impose sanctions on North Korea and order the communist regime to stop developing ballistic missiles, Foreign Minister Taro Aso said Sunday.
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Japan has no need to revise its constitution -- which prohibits it from waging war -- to win a highly coveted permanent seat on the UN Security Council, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said on Wednesday.
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Japan will go ahead with food aid to  North Korea despite its dissatisfaction with Pyongyang's  failure to clarify the fate of Japanese citizens kidnapped  decades ago, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said on  Wednesday.
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North Korea declined a request to resume talks aimed at persuading the communist nation to abandon its nuclear weapons program, Japan&#39;s government spokesman Hiroyuki Hosoda said.
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Japan's prime minister, a staunch U.S. ally in Iraq, refused on Wednesday to withdraw Japan's troops from the country, taking a tough stance in the face of demands by militants threatening to behead a Japanese hostage unless the soldiers leave.
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Japan pressed on with efforts on Thursday to secure a U.N. condemnation of North Korea's nuclear test threat after Washington, in its starkest warning so far, said it would not live with a nuclear-armed Pyongyang.
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Japan said Thursday it has made no agreement to stop hunting humpback whales, denying comments from the US ambassador here that suggested a temporary deal had been struck.
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TOKYO Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (joon-ee-chee-roh koh-ee-zoo-mee) is refusing to meet kidnappers&#39; demands for Japanese troops to withdraw from Iraq.
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi  insisted on Wednesday that Japan would not withdraw its troops  from Iraq despite a threat by a militant group to behead a  Japanese hostage unless Tokyo pulled them out.
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Japan says it will not rush to impose sanctions after North Korea withdraws from nuclear talks "indefinitely".
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Japan Wednesday refused to withdraw its forces from Iraq despite the threat by Islamic militants to execute a Japanese hostage if the troops remain.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Japanese leaders on Sunday insisted they would not cut short their troopsâ deployment in Iraq despite the discovery of the body of a Japanese backpacker killed by Islamic militants.
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TOKYO -- Japan's nationalist prime minister denied yesterday that the country's military forced women into sexual slavery during World War II, casting doubt on a past government apology and jeopardizing a fragile detente with his Asian neighbors.
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Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi has said that North Korea is unlikely to test fire a ballistic missile in the immediate future.
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TOKYO, March 1 -- Japan's prime minister denied Thursday that the country's military forced women into sexual slavery during World War II, casting doubt on a past government apology and jeopardizing a fragile detente with his Asian neighbors.
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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has said Japan will not pull its troops out of Iraq despite threats by a group led by an al Qaeda ally to behead a Japanese hostage, Japanese media reported on Wednesday.
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Japan today refused to withdraw its troops from Iraq despite demands by Iraqi militants who have taken a Japanese civilian hostage and threatened to behead him unless the soldiers left.