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Politics › Taiwan lodges protest with Japan's top representative over remarks

Japan's top representative to Taiwan, Masaki Saito, retracted remarks he made Friday saying Taiwan's international status is unclear after the island's government lodged a protest,… ...full story at Japan Today

from Japan Today on Sat, May 02 2009

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