Japan deals with fallout over war shrine
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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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Negotiating with North Korea is rarely anything but bumpy. But in recent months, Japan once got close to getting Pyongyang&#39;s commitment to rejoin the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT)-but Tokyo blew it.
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The attack signaled that the cycle of violence following the destruction a Shiite shrine has not entirely unfolded.
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Japan is blurring the line between defensive and offensive military power in spite of its pacifist Constitution, rattling nerves in northeast Asia.
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New mood in Tokyo to sanitise one of war's darkest episodes.
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SANTIAGO : Chinese President Hu Jintao has told Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi that his visits to a shrine honouring Japan&#39;s war dead including war criminals are the &quot;crux&quot; of the problem in Sino-Japanese ties.
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SANTIAGO President Hu Jintao of China has warned Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi of Japan that his controversial visits to a shrine honoring war criminals were the &quot;crux&quot; of the problem in China-Japan ties and called on Koizumi to suspend his visit to
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Japan's Defense Minister said on Sunday  Japan may have to consider negotiating changes in the agreement  that governs the status of U.S. forces in Japan following a  dispute over the management of a U.S. helicopter crash in the  southern prefecture of Okinawa earlier this month.
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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 is bracing itself for more destruction after fresh tremors interrupted the clear-up from the biggest earthquake in almost a decade.
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Japan stood by its refusal to give aid to North Korea on Tuesday unless Pyongyang settles a feud over Japanese kidnapped decades ago, adding a new twist to this week's talks on ending the North's nuclear arms program.
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TOKYO - Japan insisted yesterday it would not bow to the demands of militants in Iraq who threatened to behead a young Japanese unless Tokyo pulls its troops from the country within 48 hours.
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Japan raises concerns over Russia's decision to withdraw support for the Sakhalin 2 energy project.
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Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda is stumbling over the same controversial anti-terror legislation that brought down his predecessor, Shinzo Abe
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Japan has returned to using the prewar name for the island of Iwo Jima &#151; site of one of World War II's most horrific battles &#151; at the urging of its original inhabitants, who want to reclaim an identity they say has been hijacked by high-profile movies like Clint Eastwood's "Letters from Iwo Jima."
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SANTIAGO -- Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Sunday dismissed Chinese President Hu Jintao&#39;s criticism of his controversial visits to Tokyo&#39;s Yasukuni Shrine where the war dead, including Class-A war criminals, are enshrined.
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KUALA LUMPUR: Japan are faced with the task of having to travel to North Korea after being handed a tricky draw in the final round of Asian qualifiers for the 2006 World Cup finals here Thursday.