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  • CHINA-JAPAN TENSIONS: 'COMPETING FOR DOMINANCE IN ASIA' US Dept. of State IIP, Foreign Media Reaction 25 Apr 2005
  • Japan, China Meet, Attempt to Mend Fences VOA 23 Apr 2005 -- The leaders of Japan and China met Saturday in Jakarta on the sidelines of a summit for African and Asian leaders, in an attempt to ease tensions over Japan's wartime past.
  • Koizumi Apologizes for Japan's Past Abuses, Plans to Meet with Chinese President VOA News 22 Apr 2005 -- Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has apologized before officials of Asian and African countries for crimes committed by the Japanese Army before and during the Second World War.
  • Koizumi Apologizes for Japan's Colonial Past VOA News 22 Apr 2005 -- Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's apology before the Asian-African Summit in Indonesia is being viewed at home as nothing overly significant.
  • Japanese Prime Minister Apologies for War Crimes VOA News 22 Apr 2005 -- Mister Koizumi used a speech at the Asia-Africa summit in Jakarta to offer an apology for what he called the "tremendous damage" Japan inflicted upon its Asian neighbors during the 1930s and '40s.
  • Japan Hopeful China will Engage in Talks About Rift VOA News 20 Apr 2005 -- Japan says it hopes Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Chinese President Hu Jintao will meet on the sidelines of a summit in Jakarta this week to mend the growing rift between the two countries.
  • U.S. Envoy To Japan Backs Tokyo's Bid for Security Council Seat Washington File 18 Apr 2005 -- The new U.S. ambassador to Japan says the United States backs Tokyo's bid to become a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council.
  • China: Beijing Says Relations With Tokyo Worst In 30 Years RFE/RL 18 Apr 2005 -- Tensions between China and Japan continue to escalate, with Beijing on Monday saying bilateral relations are at a 30-year low. For the third week in a row, thousands of anti-Japanese protestors held violent demonstrations in Chinese cities on Saturday and Sunday, raising concerns about regional stability.
  • JAPAN-CHINA UN VOA 18 Apr 2005 -- Japan's quest for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council is one of the factors fueling the anti-Japan protests that have erupted across China. Hopes are fading fast that Japan will win a seat anytime soon.
  • ANTI-JAPANESE PROTESTS ERUPT AGAIN IN SEVERAL CHINESE CITIES CNA 17 Apr 2005 -- Anti-Japanese protests erupted again Sunday as Japan's foreign minister arrived in Beijing, with protesters in many Chinese cities clashing with police.
  • JAPAN/PROTESTS/REACT VOA 17 Apr 2005 -- In Japan, expectations are (were) high that the Japanese foreign minister's meeting with his Chinese counterpart in Beijing will calm tensions between the two countries.
  • CHINA/JAPAN/DIPLOMACY VOA 17 Apr 2005 -- China has refused to apologize to Japan's foreign minister, following days of sometimes violent anti-Japanese demonstrations. The Chinese protesters have denounced Japan's bid for a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council and what they say is Tokyo's downplaying of its 20th Century militarism.
  • CHINA / ANTI-JAPANESE PROTEST VOA 16 Apr 2005 -- On the eve of a visit by Japan's foreign minister to Beijing, thousands of Chinese took to the streets in at least three cities to protest Japan's approval of a school textbook allegedly glossing over its 20th century aggression in Asia. Japan has lodged a protest about a wave of rowdy demonstrations in China this past week.
  • JAPAN-CHINA DISPUTE VOA 13 Apr 2005 -- In a move likely to further exacerbate tension between Tokyo and Beijing, Japan has announced it will begin granting concessions for test drilling for natural gas and oil in waters disputed with China.
  • JAPAN-CHINA TENSIONS VOA 12 Apr 2005 -- China and Japan are engaged in a war of words over which country is to blame for anti-Japanese demonstrations in China. The dispute has prompted strong words from the prime ministers of both countries.
  • Japan to propose early implementation of CTBT at NTP review session IRNA 10 Apr 2005 -- Japan will propose that participants at a forthcoming international nuclear conference include a statement urging an early implementation of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty in a final document to be adopted at the end of the meeting, government officials said Sunday.
  • JAPAN/CHINA/PROTESTS VOA 10 Apr 2005 -- Two Japanese students have been beaten in Shanghai, and large anti-Japanese demonstrations have taken place in two southern Chinese cities. Hapan has lodged a formal protest over a violent demonstration at the Japanese Embassy in Beijing a day earlier.
  • CHINA / JAPAN PROTESTS VOA 09 Apr 2005 -- Thousands of people have taken to the streets in China's capital to voice their anger against Japan for approving a controversial history textbook. Demonstrators called for a boycott of Japanese products to push Japan to apologize for wartime aggression.
  • Japan links loan resumption to sharing of N-info: Pak daily IRNA 08 Apr 2005 -- Japan has said that it intends to resume loan facility to Pakistan, but similar to Islamabad share information on nuclear proliferation with Tokyo, a local press report said on Friday.

March

  • JAPAN CHINA ISLANDS VOA 28 Mar 2005 -- Japan has pushed Chinese diplomats for more information about Beijing's search for natural gas in areas of the ocean the two countries both claim. Japanese diplomats proposed the two governments take steps to improve ties.
  • SOKOR/JAPAN RELATIONS VOA 24 Mar 2005 -- South Korean officials are backing away from some tough language by President Roh Moo-Hyun over territorial dispute with Japan. But they continue to say they will not hesitate to confront Tokyo when necessary.
  • JAPAN/SARIN ATTACK/ANNIVERSARY VOA 19 Mar 2005 -- Japan is remembering the lethal nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system by a religious cult 10 years ago Sunday. A decade after the incident, legal appeals drag on, and survivors say they are suffering with little outside support.
  • SOKOR / JAPAN DISPUTE VOA 17 Mar 2005 -- The South Korean National Security Council says relations with Japan have been "seriously hurt" by a Japanese claim this week to several disputed islands.
  • SOKOR/JAPAN ISLANDS VOA 16 Mar 2005 -- South Korea vented its anger Wednesday after a regional legislature in Japan passed a symbolic resolution about a set of disputed islands. As street protests over the matter are intensifying in Seoul, so is the level of the South Korean government's official response.
  • Moves of U.S. and Japan to Tighten Their Military Alliance under Fire KCNA 15 Mar 2005 -- The U.S. and Japanese reactionaries have systematically supplemented and rounded off the joint military operation plan and the order of action under the pretext of "ensuring security" and "coping with threat" since the demise of the Cold War.
  • Japan Can Never Be Permanent Member of UNSC: DPRK Representative to UN KCNA 14 Mar 2005 -- It is intolerable and contrary to the basic mission of the UN for Japan to be a permanent member nation of the UNSC in view of the fact that it committed crimes against humanity in the past and is reviving militarism and posing a threat to Asia and its surrounding countries.
  • Japan Has No Qualification to Be Permanent Member of UNSC KCNA 14 Mar 2005 -- Rodong Sinmun Sunday in a singed article stresses that Japan has no qualification to be a permanent member of the UN Security Council in all respects, noting that it is an impudent and imprudent behavior for Japan to make desperate efforts for the membership, not aware of its position.
  • Japan's Territorial Claim to Tok Islet Refuted KCNA 02 Mar 2005 -- Japanese Ambassador in Seoul Takano at a recent press interview asserted that Tok Islet belongs to Japan. Earlier, a draft act on instituting Feb. 22 as "Day of Tok Islet" was submitted to the Shimane Prefectural Assembly of Japan.
  • Abe's Political Hysterics Flayed KCNA 02 Mar 2005 -- Acting Secretary General of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan Abe these days never opens his mouth without blustering about "economic sanctions against north Korea."
  • KCNA Slams Japan's Perfidy to DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration KCNA 01 Mar 2005 -- The ultra-right wing forces of Japan are spreading the false rumor that the DPRK abrogated the DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration, peddling "abduction, nuclear and missile issues".
  • JAPAN/NORTH KOREA SHIPS VOA 01 Mar 2005 -- A new Japanese law has come into force that effectively bars most North Korean ships from docking in Japan - a move seen as a de facto sanction against the communist state.

February

  • Japan's Dangerous Attempt at Preemptive Attack under Fire KCNA 28 Feb 2005 -- Japan's recent move to purchase Tomahawk cruise missiles and revise the "law of Self-Defense Forces" under the pretext of intercepting ballistic missiles is not for "defence" but for a preemptive attack and it is a dangerous military move which runs counter to the present constitution prohibiting a war.
  • Japan Strongly Warned against Its Application of Sanctions against DPRK KCNA 28 Feb 2005 -- Acting Secretary General of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan Abe in a recent lecture blustered that "now is the time for Japan to impose economic sanctions upon north Korea," saying "it should apply them against it even this month".
  • KCNA Blasts Japanese Heavyweight's Cry for Economic Sanctions against DPRK KCNA 28 Feb 2005 -- The cry made by Acting Secretary General of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan Abe for applying economic sanctions against north Korea is stirring up public furor nowadays.
  • KOREA NUCLEAR TALKS VOA 26 Feb 2005 -- The United States, Japan and South Korea have urged North Korea to return to six-nation talks on its nuclear weapons program. Washington and its top Asian allies also want China to do more to lure Pyongyang back to the negotiating table.
  • U.S.-JAPAN JOINT SECURITY STATEMENT: CONCERNS OVER AN 'EMERGING CHINA' US Dept. of State IIP, Foreign Media Reaction 24 Feb 2005
  • S KOREA JAPAN ISLANDS VOA 24 Feb 2005 -- As Japan and South Korea seek closer cooperation on the North Korean nuclear issue, a longstanding territorial dispute is flaring up and causing friction between Tokyo and Seoul.
  • Japan's Plot for Reinvasion of Korea Flailed KCNA 21 Feb 2005 -- The Japanese militarists' efforts to justify the adoption of their new "defense program" and the permission of the exercise of the "right to collective self-defense" under the pretext of "military threat" from the DPRK are nothing but a plot to reinvade Korea in league with the United States.
  • U.S., Japanese Leaders Discuss Security Situation in Asia AFPS 19 Feb 2005 -- The United States and Japan today urged North Korea to return to the Six-Party Talks, and both countries pledged to work more closely to defeat terrorism and ensure peace in Asia.
  • U.S., Japan Urge North Korea to Return to Six-Party Talks Washington File 19 Feb 2005 -- The United States and Japan have called on North Korea to return "expeditiously and without preconditions" to the Six-Party Talks aimed at dismantling its nuclear programs.
  • Rice, Machimura Call on North Korea to Rejoin Talks Washington File 19 Feb 2005 -- The United States and Japan have urged North Korea to return to six-party talks and make a commitment to dismantle all its nuclear programs.
  • US/JAPAN NOKOR VOA 19 Feb 2005 -- Japan and the United States are urging North Korea to return to regional talks over ending its nuclear weapons program. The U.S. Secretaries of State and Defense met with their Japanese counterparts in Washington Saturday, where they also expressed concerns about Taiwan.
  • RICE / TAIWAN / JAPAN VOA 18 Feb 2005 -- Bush administration officials say the United States and Japan share concerns about the security of Taiwan, but that Washington and Tokyo will not be expanding the scope of their mutual security treaty. The comments came on the eve of a Washington meeting of the American and Japanese foreign and defense ministers.
  • NOKOR/MISSILES VOA 15 Feb 2005 -- South Korea and Japan continue to develop their responses to North Korea's decision to pull out of nuclear disarmament talks. Seoul wants high-level military talks with Pyongyang, while Japan is taking steps to ensure it is able to defend itself against a possible missile attack.
  • DPRK Is Not Frightened by Japan's Disgusting Drama KCNA 12 Feb 2005 -- Minju Joson Friday comes out with a commentary hitting at the outcries of the Japanese reactionaries over the "human rights" issue in the DPRK.
  • JAPAN/NOKOR VOA 12 Feb 2005 -- Japanese Prime Minister Junichro Koizumi has resisted calls for formal economic sanctions against North Korea, which says it will boycott further six-party talks on its nuclear weapons program. But a new Japanese law that takes effect next month will effectively cut into North Korea's maritime trade with Japan - a significant source for Pyongyang of both cash and consumer goods
  • NORTH KOREA / NEXT STEPS VOA 11 Feb 2005 -- Asian leaders are pondering their next move after North Korea's announcement Thursday it would indefinitely suspend multilateral talks on its nuclear weapons program. The focus remains firmly on peaceful means to resolve the dispute.
  • NORTH KOREA NUCLEAR TALKS VOA 10 Feb 2005 -- North Korea says it will not return to multilateral talks on ending its nuclear ambitions and has repeated its earlier assertions that it has already manufactured nuclear weapons. South Korean, Japanese and U.S. officials are pushing Pyongyang to resume talks.
  • JAPAN-NOKOR SOCCER VOA 09 Feb 2005 -- Host Japan, with a late goal (in injury time in the second half), defeated a North Korean team, mainly composed of army players, 2-1 in an Asian (Group B) qualifier for soccer's World Cup. Japanese officials took extraordinary security measures inside and around the stadium amid worries that any clashes between rival supporters could trigger an international incident.
  • JAPAN NOKOR SOCCER VOA 08 Feb 2005 -- Japan and North Korea will clash on a soccer field outside Tokyo on Wednesday evening. Extraordinary security precautions are being taken to avoid an international incident at the World Cup regional qualifying match.
  • Japan Seeks Return Of Islands By Russia RFE/RL 07 Feb 2005 -- Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said today Japan and Russia must resolve a territorial dispute over four islands before the two nations can improve ties.
  • Japan's Plot to Scrap DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration Blasted KCNA 03 Feb 2005 -- The Japanese government is now contemplating a tightened "report and information system on remittance to north Korea and taking out money to it" as part of economic sanctions against the DPRK over the "issue of abductees whose fate remains unknown."

January

  • KCNA Slams Japanese Reactionaries' Attempt to Internationalize Abduction Issue KCNA 31 Jan 2005 -- The Japanese reactionaries are now getting more undisguised in their moves to internationalize the "abduction issue." Yachi, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan, at talks with a delegation of U.S. congressmen on Jan.18 asserted that it is necessary for the entire international community to put pressure upon north Korea in order to settle the abduction issue.
  • JAPAN / N. KOREA SANCTIONS VOA 27 Jan 2005 -- Japan is giving its clearest signal yet that it might impose economic sanctions against North Korea. The threat comes amid increasingly contentious rhetoric over the failure to resolve the issue of North Korean abductions of Japanese citizens during the Cold War.
  • Japan's Demand for "Reinvestigation" Rejected KCNA 19 Jan 2005 -- The DPRK feels no need to have inter-governmental contact with Japan any longer now that the "abduction issue" had been settled with the Japanese prime minister's visit to Pyongyang as an occasion and the DPRK has made all sincere efforts it can.
  • Malicious Smear Campaign against DPRK Flailed KCNA 19 Jan 2005 -- Kanzaki, representative of the Komeito Party, a party of the ruling coalition of Japan, in a recent NHK program palavered about the "abduction issue", throwing together the balderdash that "pressure should be put on north Korea" and "stage-by-stage reaction is necessary."
  • JAPAN DEFENSE VOA 07 Jan 2005 -- The head of Japan's Defense Agency is about to embark on a six-day trip to several Asian nations to explain the country's beefed-up defense policy. The visit is seen as an attempt to reassure the region Japan has no intention of returning to its militarist past.
  • JAPAN-NOKOR VOA 04 Jan 2005 -- Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is hoping to see progress this year in the on-again, off-again dialogue with North Korea. Mr. Koizumi says he does not believe the communist state really wants to end talks with Japan.
 

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