Japan's Abe in China for ice-breaking summit
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held talks with Chinese leaders in Beijing on Sunday, seeking a thaw in relations chilled by wartime history and consulting his hosts on North Korea's nuclear threat.
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Japan's new PM Shinzo Abe uses his first speech to say he wants to repair relations with China and South Korea.
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TOKYO -- Seeking to mend Japan's deteriorating relations with its chief Asian neighbors, Japanese officials on Monday said they were pushing for rapid summit meetings between freshly inaugurated Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his counterparts in China and South Korea.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has voiced concern about China's satellite-destroying test, charging that Beijing had violated international law.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will become the first Japanese leader to address Australia&#39;s parliament when he visits in September, his Australian counterpart John Howard said Monday.
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Japan's prime minister calls for increased co-operation with China, at the end of a four-day trip to the country.
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Japan&#39;s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived in Berlin on Tuesday ahead of his first G8 summit, saying the Asian power would use its clout to act as a go-between in the fraught debate on climate change.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe denied  on Monday that a groundbreaking security agreement he is to  sign with Australian Prime Minister John Howard in Tokyo this  week was aimed at reining in China.
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SANTIAGO, Chile-Chinese President Hu Jintao told Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi that his repeated visits to Yasukuni Shrine are the biggest obstacles to improving Japan-China relations.
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Japan should consider economic sanctions against North Korea if talks with the nation on abductions of Japanese citizens end without making progress, said ruling party official Shinzo Abe.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who took office last week, will visit China on October 8 and South Korea on October 9 for fence-mending summits, public broadcaster NHK said on Tuesday.
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Japan's new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said he hopes to go on a fence-mending tour of China and South Korea but refused to give ground on emotionally charged disputes over wartime history.
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BEIJING  - German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder left China for Japan where he will hold talks with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and have an audience with the emperor.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe denied on Monday that a groundbreaking security agreement he is to sign with Australian Prime Minister John Howard in Tokyo this week was aimed at reining in China.
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HIROSHIMA, Japan  - Shinzo Abe announced his   candidacy on Friday to be Japan's next prime minister, a post   he looks certain to win, and said he wanted his country to   forge a stronger role on the world stage and improve ties with   Asia.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was set to sign a ground-breaking defense pact with Australian Prime Minister John Howard on Tuesday that both leaders have emphasized is not aimed at reining in China.
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Japan wants to hold a leaders' meeting   with China in October, Foreign Minister Taro Aso said on   Wednesday, adding that a visit to Beijing by new Prime Minister   Shinzo Abe was one option.