China defense minister visits Japan, ties on mend
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Chinese defense Minister Cao Gangchuan arrived in Japan on Wednesday in the first such visit in nearly 10 years, hoping to ease tensions after strained ties halted top-level military exchanges.
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Japan's defence chief Yoshinori Ono paid a flying visit to Japanese troops deployed in southern Iraq, where he also met the regional governor.
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TOKYO, Sept. 26 -- After easily winning election in votes by parliament, Japan's new prime minister, Shinzo Abe, pledged Tuesday to repair tattered relations with China, bolster his country's long-standing alliance with the United States and overhaul the pacifist constitution.
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Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing arrives in Japan for talks aimed at repairing tense bilateral relations.
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Japan's new prime minister, Shinzo Abe,   pledged on Tuesday to boost his country's role in global   affairs while trying to improve relations with China, frayed by   predecessor Junichiro Koizumi's visits to a Tokyo war shrine.
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QUFU, China  - Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda concluded a feel-good visit to China on Sunday with a stop at the birthplace of Confucius, but the outlook for better relations could be dampened by his dwindling domestic clout.
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China's Cao Gangchuan begins a visit to Japan, the first by a Chinese defence minister in over nine years.
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Japan grappled Wednesday with the fallout from Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit to a Tokyo war shrine, as diplomats reportedly worked to mend frayed ties with China and South Korea.
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While Pyongyang will likely delay six-nation talks on its nuclear programs, Japan&#39;s Foreign Ministry is preparing discussions with North Korea later this month in Beijing to finally get answers on 10 missing Japanese.
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Japan and China should try to resolve their differences calmly, China's ambassador to Japan said Saturday, a day after Tokyo filed a protest with Beijing over the intrusion of a Chinese nuclear submarine.
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Japan unveiled a revamped defense policy on Friday that eases a decades-old ban on arms exports and, in carefully couched words, suggests a shift from the purely
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Japan&#39;s defense minister was due to return home on Monday from a flying visit to Iraq after declaring the town of Samawa safe, setting the stage for the government to extend its troops&#39; humanitarian mission there.
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Vice President Dick Cheney arrived in Japan on Tuesday on a visit to reassure America's close ally that a troop build-up will help quell violence in Iraq, just weeks after Japan's defense minister said starting the war was a mistake.
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In a move that could further chill ties  between the two Asian powers, an advisory panel to Japan's  prime minister will say China should be described as a military  threat in a defense review, the Nihon Keizai newspaper reported  on Wednesday.
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Japan said China apologized on Tuesday for the intrusion by one of its submarines into Japanese waters last week in a gesture that defuses a dispute and may open the way for a bilateral summit this weekend.
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Japan unveiled a revamped defense policy on Friday that eases a decades-old ban on arms exports and, in carefully couched words, suggests a shift from the purely defensive posture in place since its defeat in World War II.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who took office last week, will visit China on October 8 and South Korea on October 9 for fence-mending summits, public broadcaster NHK said on Tuesday.