Koizumi dismisses Chinese leader&#39;s criticism of visits to Yasukuni ...
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SANTIAGO -- Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Sunday dismissed Chinese President Hu Jintao&#39;s criticism of his controversial visits to Tokyo&#39;s Yasukuni Shrine where the war dead, including Class-A war criminals, are enshrined.
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Japanese officials rushed on Friday to dismiss suggestions that the emperor overstepped his authority and meddled in government affairs by voicing his opposition to Tokyo schools' policy of compulsory patriotism.
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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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SANTIAGO, Chile-Chinese President Hu Jintao told Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi that his repeated visits to Yasukuni Shrine are the biggest obstacles to improving Japan-China relations.
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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Tuesday rejected a suggestion by Russian President Vladimir Putin that the dispute over the Northern Territories be settled with the return of two of the four islands.
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TOKYO - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumiâs support rating has plunged to 37 percent as a growing number of people oppose his decision to extend Japanâs troop deployment in Iraq, an opinion poll report said Sunday.
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A majority of Japanese want their government to get tougher with China and North Korea as support for Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has dipped, an opinion poll showed.
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Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda will make his first visit to China next week in a bid to strengthen ties, but with a breakthrough in a natural resources dispute unlikely he could face further trouble back home.
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Yasuo Fukuda, the frontrunner to succeed Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, said on Sunday it was vital to keep a thaw in ties with China on track but also urged Beijing to better explain its ballooning military spending.
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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has said he will bring up the intrusion of a Chinese submarine in Japanese waters when he meets Chinese President Hu Jintao this weekend in their first meeting in a year.
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Japan yesterday confirmed it will issue a visa to former president Lee Teng-hui ( æç»è¼ ) as stated earlier, despite China&#39;s warning of retaliation.
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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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TOKYO - Japan on Wednesday downplayed North Korea&#39;s criticism of Tokyo for saying that ashes brought from Pyongyang by a Japanese delegation last month are not those of abductee Megumi Yokota as the North claims.
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A rare visit to Japan by a Chinese defense minister has done little to erase mutual suspicion over the Asian rivals' military ambitions, despite his assurances that Beijing poses no threat, Japanese media said on Friday.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao ( è¡é¦æ¿¤ ) on Sunday warned Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi that his controversial visits to a shrine honoring war criminals are the &quot;crux&quot; of the problem in Sino-Japanese ties.
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SANTIAGO: Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Monday his country would never go to war with China and that bilateral ties were satisfactory.
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Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Wu Dawei has called in Japan&#39;s ambassador to express China&#39;s strong opposition to Tokyo&#39;s decision to issue a visa to former Taiwan president Lee Teng-hui, state TV reports.