At summit, Roh cautions Koizumi on North stance
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December 18, 2004 ã¡ KAGOSHIMA, Japan â At a press conference here after a summit meeting with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi of Japan, President Roh Moo-hyun said that South Korea would not oppose Tokyo taking punitive economic measures against
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Japan is trying to reach agreement on a fence-mending summit between its new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and China, and set a date for a similar meeting with South Korea, Tokyo's top government spokesman said on Monday.
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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi was warned to be more humble by a key backer in his ruling party amid a simmering row over his controversial plans to privatize postal services.
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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi made the pledge after talks with visiting South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun. The Japanese government is under pressure to impose sanctions over a row concerning kidnapped Japanese.
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South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun says a peaceful approach to solving North Korea&#39;s nuclear threat is preferred over the more forceful action advocated by some hard-liners in the United States.
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi should stop visiting a shrine China say symbolizes Japan&#39;s militaristic past as it hurts business ties, Kakutaro Kitashiro, chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives said.
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Economic sanctions against North Korea  are "one option," but care is needed in deciding whether to  take that step, Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura  said on Thursday, a day after Pyongyang warned Japan that  imposing sanctions would be tantamount to war.
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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi headed to northern Japan on Tuesday to survey the damage wrought by the deadliest earthquakes to hit the country in nearly a decade, while the death toll from the quakes rose to 31.
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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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Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo held talks in Tokyo on the start of a trans-Pacific trip which could be the last summit for Japan's outgoing Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi signaled he will likely go to a controversial shrine on a sensitive war anniversary despite appeals from neighboring countries and rising public opposition.
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TOKYO -- Japan's likely next premier, outspoken conservative Shinzo Abe, pressed for summits with China and South Korea yesterday after being tapped to head the country's ruling party in a vote heralding a swing to the right.
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Japan&#39;s foreign minister said Sunday that Tokyo remains cautious about imposing economic sanctions on North Korea because the impoverished communist country could use it as an excuse to pull out of bilateral talks.
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Astana - Hanoi, October 11 KAZINFORM -- President Roh Moo-hyun said Monday he did not expect North Korea to go to extremes over the issue of its nuclear weapons development program.
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by our Internet desk, 24 August 2004. Japan&#39;s Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi says he will press his country&#39;s case for a permanent UN Security Council seat when he addresses the annual session of the General Assembly next month.
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When Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi traveled to New York early this week to address the United Nations General Assembly, his objective was clear: to pitch for UN reforms that would
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When Japan's new prime minister, Shinzo Abe, clasps the hands of Chinese and South Korean leaders before the cameras at ice-breaking summits on Sunday and Monday, much of his mission will be accomplished.