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Ship spat strains Taiwan-Japan relations

The sinking of a leisure fishing boat close to a set of disputed islands has led to Taiwan recalling its Foreighn Ministry representative from Tokyo ...full story at Financial Times

from Financial Times on Mon, Jun 16 2008

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