Japan Is Seeking to Identify Submarine Detected Near Okinawa
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Japan is seeking to identify the submarine that was detected yesterday near the southern island chain of Okinawa, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokuki Hosoda said.
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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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Japanâs ruling party was expected to push into law a bill to revive a naval mission to support U.S.-led forces.
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TOKYO - China has admitted one of its nuclear submarines entered Japanese waters last week and expressed regret, according to Japanese media.
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Japanese government officials Thursday confirmed a Chinese Navy submarine intrusively entered Japanese waters a day earlier. The submarine was discovered early Wednesday
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Japan was on alert after a suspected Chinese nuclear submarine entered its territorial waters, setting off a chase on the high sea amid mounting disputes between the Asian powers.
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Japan's Defense Minister said on Sunday  Japan may have to consider negotiating changes in the agreement  that governs the status of U.S. forces in Japan following a  dispute over the management of a U.S. helicopter crash in the  southern prefecture of Okinawa earlier this month.
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Japan&#39;s Defense Agency suspects that an unidentified submarine sighted in Japanese waters early Wednesday was a Chinese nuclear submarine, Kyodo News reports.
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Japan has identified the submarine spotted in Japanese waters on Nov. 10 as belonging to China&#39;s navy, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda said.
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Japan is preparing a set of high-level  alert procedures to follow in the event of a nuclear power  plant accident abroad, out of concern that North Korea may  carry out an underground nuclear test, Kyodo News said on  Saturday, citing government sources.
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Ongoing Japanese investigation into a leak of sensitive U.S. military data lead to searches of military personnel and a destroyer.
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Heavy vehicles and other equipment related to the upcoming deployment of advanced Patriot interceptor missiles at American bases on southern Okinawa island arrived in Japan on Saturday, news reports said.
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China&#39;s newest ballistic missile  submarine, the Jin-class vessel, has been spotted for the first  time by a commercial satellite, a nuclear expert at the  Federation of American Scientists said on Thursday.
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TOKYO : Japan summoned a top Chinese diplomat to demand an apology for the intrusion into its waters of a nuclear submarine, which set off a two-day chase at sea amid mounting tension between the Asian powers.
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi  plans to ask Washington to move some U.S. troops from the  southern island chain of Okinawa to locations outside Japan as  part of the U.S. government's review its global military  forces, Kyodo news agency reported Thursday.
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TOKYO  - Japan took up with China the issue of a suspicious submarine that intruded into its waters amid alarm in Tokyo that the vessel was a show of strength from its neighbour and growing competitor.
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Japan protested to China on Friday after concluding that a nuclear-powered submarine that intruded into its waters this week belonged to the Chinese navy.