TOKYO REACTION Koizumi Vows No Japanese Withdrawal After Tourist&#39;s ...
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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Sunday repeated his vow to keep about 550 troops in Iraq after the government confirmed that the decapitated body found on a street
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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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WASHINGTON, Nov 1  - The United States on Monday condemned the beheading of a Japanese tourist by militants in Iraq as a &quot;heinous crime&quot; and hailed Tokyo&#39;s rejection of terrorist demands to withdraw troops from the insurgency-wracked nation.
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Japan said on Wednesday that its ties with Washington would not be shaken by a U.S. Congressional move to seek an apology for forcing women to serve as sex slaves during World War Two.
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi says Japan won&#39;t yield to terrorism by withdrawing its troops from Iraq, in response to reports an Iraqi group kidnapped a Japanese
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Yasuo Fukuda, the front-runner to be Japan&#39;s next prime minister, pledged Sunday to strengthen ties with China and said he would not visit a war shrine seen as a symbol of Tokyo&#39;s wartime past.
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Japan will not tighten its monetary policy as the consumer prices became positive, said Bank of Japanâs governor Toshihiko Fukui on Tuesday.
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi renewed support for the reconstruction of Iraq but made no commitment on future troop deployments in a meeting with US President George W. Bush.
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Junichiro Koizumi, who steps down as Japanese prime minister next week, says he is looking forward to being free and has some advice for his successor: be hard-hearted.
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TOKYO - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi vowed on Sunday that Japanese troops would continue their domestically unpopular mission in Iraq after Islamic militants demanding a pullout killed a 24-year-old Japanese tourist.
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The crisis is a political challenge for Koizumi, who decided to send Japanese troops to Iraq despite strong public opposition. &quot;We cannot tolerate terrorism and we will not give in to terrorism,&quot; Koizumi told reporters on Wednesday.
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threat by a militant group to behead a Japanese hostage within 48 hours unless Tokyo pulls its forces out. &quot;We cannot tolerate terrorism and we will not give in to terrorism,&quot; Koizumi told reporters on Wednesday.
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has announced that Japan will not recall soldiers stationed in Iraq because an Iraqi group has threatened to kill a Japanese hostage.
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SANTIAGO (Kyodo) Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Monday that Japan and China should promote friendly relations even if there are thorny issues between them, an apparent reference to China&#39;s criticism of his repeated visits to Yasukuni Shrine.
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Japan today refused to withdraw its troops from Iraq despite demands by Iraqi militants who have taken a Japanese civilian hostage and threatened to behead him unless the soldiers left.
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TOKYO - Japan on Wednesday downplayed North Korea&#39;s criticism of Tokyo for saying that ashes brought from Pyongyang by a Japanese delegation last month are not those of abductee Megumi Yokota as the North claims.
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TOKYO: Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi appeared on Monday to have won public backing for his refusal to pull Japanese troops out of Iraq despite the weekend beheading of a Japanese hostage.