Taiwan's Lee visits Tokyo's Yasukuni war shrine
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Former Taiwan president Lee Teng-hui, despised by Beijing for asserting the self-ruled island's sovereignty, paid his respects at Tokyo's Yasukuni war shrine on Thursday, prompting a terse complaint from China.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan's leader called for peace talks and other "concrete actions" to reduce tensions with rival China during a National Day speech on Sunday that was far more conciliatory than in years past.    President Chen Shui-bian avoided language and issues that have raised tensions in the past during the speech, and even extended Taiwan's best wishes as China prepares for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing...
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Japan plans to allow former Taiwan  President Lee Teng-hui to visit for a sightseeing tour, the  government said on Thursday, prompting an angry protest from  China at a time of already frosty ties.
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Taiwan&#39;s former president Lee Teng-hui on Saturday fired a defiant shot at China during a visit to Japan, urging Tokyo to take a harder line in an emotive row over a war shrine.
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Former Taiwan president Lee Teng-hui, despised by Beijing for asserting the self-ruled island's sovereignty, paid his respects at a Tokyo war shrine on Thursday, despite China's objections.
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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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Former Taiwan president Lee Teng-hui  left for Japan on Monday on a controversial visit that has  sparked furious protests from China.
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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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Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda will make his first visit to China next week in a bid to strengthen ties, but with a breakthrough in a natural resources dispute unlikely he could face further trouble back home.
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SAMAWAH, Iraq - Hajime Massaki, chairman of the Joint Staff Council of Japan&#39;s Self-Defense Forces, on Tuesday visited the SDF&#39;s camp in the southern Iraqi city of Samawah where ground troops are providing reconstruction assistance.
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Taipei, Dec. 26 (CNA) Former President Lee Teng-hui is scheduled to depart for Japan Monday for a week-long sightseeing tour, informed sources said Sunday.
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Marshall Islands President Kessai Note will travel to Taiwan next week on a trip expected to pave the way for a return visit by Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian as part of a tour of Taipei's handful of Pacific allies next year, officials said.
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Will Japanese PM stir controversy with his New Year's day visit to a shrine honoring war criminals?
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Japan issues a tourist visa to former Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui, despite protests from China.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited Okinawa on Saturday to commemorate a bloody World War Two battle, the day after local lawmakers blasted official plans to alter school textbook accounts of wartime suicides.
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Taiwan reopens a giant memorial to Chiang Kai-shek as a memorial to abuses under his rule.
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The Chinese government again requests the Japanese government to correct its wrongdoing of permitting Lee Teng-Hui&#39;s tour to Japan, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said here Tuesday.