Prison call for Japan executive
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TOKYO Prosecutors on Thursday called for a three-year prison term for Yasuo Takei, the founder of Takefuji, a Japanese consumer finance company, for ordering illegal wiretaps and for defamation.
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Japan&#39;s Prime Minister, Junichiro Koizumi, has called for the release of of a Japanese tourist taken hostage in Iraq but says Japan will not &quot;bend to terror.
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Japan on Tuesday warned it might impose sanctions against North Korea after accusing the communist country of failing to properly investigate the fates of Japanese citizens it kidnapped years ago.
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Japan sought international help on  Thursday for a Japanese man held hostage in Iraq, with less  than 24 hours to go for a deadline set by his captors to behead  him unless Tokyo withdraws its troops.
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Turning the tables on Tokyo, North Korea has called on Japan to investigate the case of one of its nationals who went missing in 1991 while working in Russia, saying it presumed Japan had abducted him.
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Japan hangs three prisoners in the country's second round of executions in less than two months.
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States, which may pave the way for him to leave Japan after almost half a year in detention. He has been held in Japan since July when he was stopped with a passport that US officials said was invalid.
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Japan's prime minister-to-be, Yasuo Fukuda, named his party lieutenants on Monday as he braced for a showdown with a combative opposition amid calls for early elections after a disastrous year for the ruling coalition.
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Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo has called on Japan to extradite fugitive ex-President, Alberto Fujimori. Mr. Toledo made the demand Wednesday during a speech at the United Nations General Assembly in
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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi made the pledge after talks with visiting South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun. The Japanese government is under pressure to impose sanctions over a row concerning kidnapped Japanese.
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Peruvian ex-leader Alberto Fujimori, under house arrest in Chile, considers an offer to run for office in Japan.
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Will Japanese PM stir controversy with his New Year's day visit to a shrine honoring war criminals?
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Japan will set up a task force to consider allowing a reigning empress, an official said Monday - the government's first review of a post-World War II law that limits imperial succession to men.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose year-old government has suffered a string of damaging scandals and a humiliating electoral defeat, has told ruling party leaders he wants to resign, news reports said Wednesday.
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AMMAN, Jordan -- A top diplomat from Tokyo met with Jordanian and Iraqi officials in Amman on Thursday in the hope of obtaining the release of a Japanese hostage held in Iraq, hours before a deadline for his killing expires.
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Japan said on Friday it would urge North Korea to reinvestigate the fate of Japanese citizens abducted decades ago, and threatened to take &quot;harsh&quot; action unless the reclusive communist state responded &quot;sincerely&quot;.
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Japan scrambled Wednesday to win the release a 24-year old Japanese man taken hostage by Islamic militants in Iraq, dispatching high level diplomats to the middle east and launching an appeal for his freedom on Arabic television.