Japan talks terrorism responses at ASEAN
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Foreign ministers from Japan and from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations met in Laos Saturday to discuss terrorism, Kyodo reported.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard tried to reassure nervous Asian neighbors on Tuesday after saying he wanted to strike terror threats at the source, a key difference with opposition Labor before an Oct.
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Leaving behind a region set on edge by  North Korean missile launches, Japanese Prime Minister  Junichiro Koizumi departed on Tuesday for an increasingly tense  Middle East to call for more efforts toward regional peace.
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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 leaders struggled on Thursday to make contact with Islamic militants in Iraq who took a Japanese traveler hostage as the 48-hour deadline approached for the young man's threatened beheading. Tokyo stood firm in its refusal to meet the kidnappers' demand to withdraw troops from Iraq.
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Vientiane (VNA) - Foreign ministers from Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations on Saturday in Vientiane, Laos, approved a draft anti-terrorism declaration which is expected to be adopted at the 10th ASEAN Summit on Tuesday.
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Japan&#039;s Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi won Israeli support for its accusations of a North Korean military threat, while urging the Jewish state to take &amp;quot;rational action&amp;quot; in the face of an escalating Middle East crisis.
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The leaders of the United States, Japan and Australia held landmark security talks Saturday, after moving to allay China&#39;s fears that the alliance is aimed at containing the regional superpower.
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Japan is trying to agree on dates for fence-mending summits between its new prime minister, Shinzo Abe, and the leaders of China and South Korea, a senior Japanese foreign ministry official said on Monday.
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Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda pleaded with parliament to extend Japan's support for the US-led "war on terror" but a fresh defence scandal provided new ammunition for the opposition.
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JAKARTA -- Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have agreed to launch free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations in April 2005, sources said over the weekend.
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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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World leaders including the prime ministers of Australia and Japan are heading to Jakarta for an emergency summit on the tsumami catastrophe, an event sure to pose huge security headaches in a country where ...
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Japan and the United States will call for greater cooperation between troops of the two nations to address regional threats in a joint security statement to be released in February, a news report said.
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A summit between the two nations' leaders is a sign of how Japan's new prime minister is looking beyond the U.S. and embracing its Asian partners
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi stressed Thursday on the importance of Japan-US alliance in dealing with international affairs after US President George W.Bush secured his second term.
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Southeast Asian economic ministers met  on Saturday with counterparts from powerhouses Japan and China,  and made progress toward liberalizing trade and boosting  business, officials said.