No deal for Japan PM on Afghan naval mission
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Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and the leader of Japan's main opposition party met on Tuesday but failed to break a stalemate over extending a naval mission supporting U.S.-led Afghan operations.
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Japan's prime minister says he may resign if MPs block his plans to extend Japan's mission in Afghanistan.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday  that Japan would not apologize again for forcing women, mostly  Asian, to act as wartime sex slaves for its soldiers even if  U.S. lawmakers adopt a resolution calling for an apology.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is staking his job on Japan's continued support of the coalition forces in Afghanistan. But it's matters closer to home that threaten him most
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Japan offered a compromise on Monday to break an impasse over its controversial plan to lift a 20-year moratorium of commercial whale hunting but it was flatly rejected by the other key powers.
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Japan&#39;s main opposition leader on Thursday rebuffed an appeal by visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel to keep supporting the &quot;war on terror&quot; in Afghanistan, an official said.
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Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and the leader of Japan's main opposition party failed at a meeting on Tuesday to break a stalemate over a naval mission backing U.S.-led Afghan operations, but they agreed to meet again.
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Japan's prime minister rejects Iraqi militants' demands for a troop pullout after a Japanese man is seized.
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Japan will not apologize again for its World War II military brothels, even if the U.S. Congress passes a resolution demanding it, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told parliament Monday.
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Japanese PM Shinzo Abe says Japan will not issue another apology for its World War II military brothels.
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Japan's Foreign Ministry spokesman,    Hatsuhisa Takashima , said here last week that his country had been active in the rebuilding of Afghanistan.
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North Korea declined a request to resume talks aimed at persuading the communist nation to abandon its nuclear weapons program, Japan&#39;s government spokesman Hiroyuki Hosoda said.
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Japan&#39;s prime minister today refused to bend to demands by militants who have taken a Japanese civilian hostage in Iraq and threatened to behead him unless Tokyo withdraws its soldiers.
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NATO members failed to offer any extra   troops for a tough peacekeeping mission in southern Afghanistan   at talks on Wednesday, an alliance spokesman said.
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Japan failed in its bid Thursday to lift a moratorium on commercial whaling after stormy annual talks of the 75-nation International Whaling Commission (IWC) and warned it might pull out of the organization.
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi announced on Tuesday that Tokyo would not support the idea to solve the problem of southern Kuril Islands and peace treaty with Moscow by getting just two islands, Shikotan and Habomai.
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The United States and Britain Thursday urged Japan to renew a mission to refuel coalition ships in the Indian Ocean as fierce opposition in parliament dimmed prospects of securing an extension before the deployment expires next month.