Japan: China Apologizes for Submarine Incursion
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Japan says China has apologized for one of its submarines sailing into Japanese waters last week. China has refused to confirm the apology, saying only that a &quot;diplomatic&quot; resolution has been reached.
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Japanese Trade Minister Shoichi Nakagawa expressed anger on Sunday at the intrusion into Japanese waters of what Tokyo believes was a Chinese submarine and hinted at repercussions on economic aid to China.
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Japan is seeking to identify the submarine that was detected yesterday near the southern island chain of Okinawa, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokuki Hosoda said.
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A submarine that intruded into waters off Japan earlier this week has been identified as Chinese, Japan&#39;s top government spokesman Hiroyuki Hosoda said on Friday, adding that Tokyo would protest to Beijing.
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BEIJING -- China expressed regret through diplomatic channels yesterday that one of its nuclear-powered submarines intruded into Japanese territorial waters last week for &quot;technical reasons,&quot; Japanese officials said.
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Ruling bloc and opposition lawmakers Thursday criticized the government&#39;s slow response to a mystery submarine that intruded into Japan&#39;s territorial waters the previous day.
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Tokyo lodged a strong protest Friday with Beijing after confirming that a submarine that intruded into Japan&#39;s territorial waters off Okinawa earlier this week belongs to the Chinese Navy.
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Discovery of the submarine image is likely to cause consternation within China's military.
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Japan protested to China on Friday after concluding that a nuclear-powered submarine that intruded into its waters this week belonged to the Chinese navy.
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Japan&#39;s defense minister apologized on  Sunday for comments about the 1945 U.S. atomic bomb attacks on  the country which outraged survivors and drew criticism from  the ruling bloc ahead of a key election in late July.
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BEIJING : China said on Thursday it knew nothing about a submarine that entered Japanese waters near a disputed gas field and sparked a high seas chase.
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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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TOKYO : Japan&#39;s media has condemned the intrusion of a Chinese nuclear submarine into its waters with most newspapers saying Beijing should accept a demand from Tokyo to apologise over the incident.
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ELEANOR HALL: Diplomatic tensions erupted between China and Japan this week over a mystery submarine in Japanese waters. The Japanese Government had blamed the Chinese for the incursion.
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Japan said China apologized on Tuesday for the intrusion by one of its submarines into Japanese waters last week in a gesture that defuses a dispute and may open the way for a bilateral summit this weekend.
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TOKYO, Nov. 12 -- Japan lodged a formal protest with the Chinese government on Friday after determining that an unidentified nuclear submarine that entered its territorial waters this week belonged to China.
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Japan's outspoken foreign minister apologized Friday for joking that "even people with Alzheimer's disease" would know the difference in price between Japanese and Chinese rice.