Japan anger at stray sub
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THE detection of a foreign submarine in Japan&#39;s southern coastal waters threatens to aggravate tensions between Tokyo and Beijing.
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Shocked by the murder of a kidnapped Japanese hostage in Iraq, the Japanese government Sunday denounced the slaying but vowed to keep its forces there.
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A strong earthquake damages a nuclear power plant in Japan, reportedly causing a leak of radioactive material.
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Japan&#39;s military yesterday shadowed an unidentified submarine that entered its territorial waters the day before, but officials said they had not yet figured out what country the intruder was from.
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Japan says it is lodging a strong protest with North Korea over what Tokyo sees as its lack of co-operation over missing Japanese.
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ELEANOR HALL: Diplomatic tensions erupted between China and Japan this week over a mystery submarine in Japanese waters. The Japanese Government had blamed the Chinese for the incursion.
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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.
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Japan will protest to China after concluding that a nuclear-powered submarine that intruded into its waters this week belonged to the Chinese navy, top government spokesman Hiroyuki Hosoda said on Friday.
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About 300 women gathered on Japan's  southern island of Okinawa on Tuesday to protest the suspected  rape of a 14-year-old girl there by a U.S. Marine, calling for  U.S. troops to leave, media reported.
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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 says China has apologized for one of its submarines sailing into Japanese waters last week. China has refused to confirm the apology, saying only that a &quot;diplomatic&quot; resolution has been reached.
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Nuclear leaks after Japan's July 16 earthquake awaken insecurities
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Japan urged Australia Tuesday to take legal action against two anti-whaling protestors who climbed aboard a Japanese whaler in Antarctic seas last week, a foreign ministry statement said.
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The fragile relations between Tokyo and Beijing were further weakened yesterday when a suspected Chinese nuclear submarine was chased out of Japanese territorial waters.
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About 300 women gathered on Japan's southern island of Okinawa on Tuesday to protest the suspected rape of a 14-year-old girl there by a U.S. Marine, calling for U.S. troops to leave, media reported.
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China acknowledged today for the first time that one of its submarines had accidentally crossed into Japanese waters last week and expressed regret over the incursion, Japanâs foreign minister said.
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Japan&#39;s Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura launched a strong protest against the Chinese government and demanded an apology on Friday over an incident in which a submarine deemed to be of Chinese origin infiltrated Japanese waters.