Ex-Taiwan leader visits Japan war shrine
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Former Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui visited a Tokyo war shrine Thursday to pay respects to his late brother, drawing a quick rebuke from China and complicating already delicate relations between Beijing and Tokyo.
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Taiwan&#39;s former President Lee Teng-hui (æç»è¼) yesterday began a week-long visit to Japan despite protests by China which was furious Tokyo allowed the trip by the pro-independence leader.
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arrived on a remote island in northern Japan to start a new life with his Japanese wife and their two daughters. court-martial last month after saying he deserted from South Korea because he was frightened.
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Japan said on Monday it would issue a  visa as scheduled for former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui to  visit for sightseeing despite angry protests from China.
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TOKYO -- Every morning for the last three months, Yuko Tojo has prayed at a war shrine for Japan's fallen soldiers, including her grandfather, General Hideki Tojo, the executed World War II prime minister who ordered the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Taiwan's president says he wants talks with China to reduce military tension and misunderstanding.
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Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian set out  for a landmark visit to the disputed Spratly Islands on  Saturday to assert a territorial claim in a move likely to  upset China, Vietnam and other nations.
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China's President Hu Jintao tells Japanese PM Junichiro Koizumi his war shrine visits are hurting bilateral ties.
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Former president Lee Teng-hui ( æç»è¼ ) began a week-long visit to Japan yesterday despite protests by China, which was furious that Tokyo allowed the trip by the pro-independence leader.
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Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is visiting her ancestral village to pray at her father's tomb.
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Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian on Saturday visited the Spratly islands, the defence ministry said, in a move aimed at underscoring Taipei's claim to the disputed group but which will likely spark tensions in the region.
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TOKYO: Japan issued a visa yesterday for former Taiwan president Lee Teng-hui to visit for sightseeing, prompting another round of angry protests from China.
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Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda vented his frustration Tuesday at media coverage of former Taiwan President Lee Tenghui&#39;s private visit to Japan.
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Yasuo Fukuda, the front-runner to be Japan&#39;s next prime minister, pledged Sunday to strengthen ties with China and said he would not visit a war shrine seen as a symbol of Tokyo&#39;s wartime past.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan - A Taiwanese spiritual leader said on Thursday he had used his magical powers to take the island's new premier on a tour of Paris without going there physically.
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Former Taiwan president Lee Teng-hui strongly defended his visit to a Tokyo war shrine that had angered Beijing and clouded Sino-Japanese ties, and repeated his view that the self-ruled island was independent.
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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi walked along crumbled mountain roads Tuesday to inspect collapsed homes and speak to survivors Tuesday as he surveyed the damage inflicted by Japan&#39;s deadliest earthquake in nearly a decade.