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(2) China conveys 'strong dissatisfaction' to Japan over Lee visa

BEIJING, China - Japanese Ambassador to China Koreshige Anami arrives in a car at the Chinese Foreign Ministry to meet Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wu Dawei on Dec. 22. Wu told Anami to convey to Tokyo Beijing's ''strong dissatisfaction and protest'' over Japan's issuance of a visa to former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui.

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(1)China conveys 'strong dissatisfaction' to Japan over Lee visa

BEIJING, China - A carrying Japanese Ambassador to China Koreshige Anami arrives at the Chinese Foreign Ministry on Dec. 22. Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wu Dawei told Anami to convey to Tokyo Beijing's ''strong dissatisfaction and protest'' over Japan's issuance of a visa to former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui.

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Ex-envoy learns from riot lesson, heads China center in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Koreshige Anami, a former ambassador to China and now executive director of the Japan Foundation China Center, is interviewed by Kyodo News on Aug. 5.

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China tours celebrate Prince Shotoku's dispatch of Ono no Imoko

TOKYO, Japan - Virginia Fumiyo Anami, wife of former Japanese Ambassador to China Koreshige Anami, is arranging tours to China to commemorate the 1,400th anniversary of Prince Shotoku's dispatch of Ono no Imoko as an official Japanese diplomatic delegate to China during the Sui dynasty.

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Ambassador says ill feelings most worrisome for Japan-China ties

BEIJING, China - Japan's outgoing Ambassador to China Koreshige Anami said at the Japanese Embassy in Beijing on March 24 that growing ill feelings between Japanese and Chinese people, rather than their governments' differences over Japan's wartime past, will be a bigger problem for the two countries in the long term. Anami made the remarks ahead of his departure next week after a five-year tenure.

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Wu's shortened Japan trip a 'rare chance' lost: ambassador

BEIJING, China - Japanese Ambassador to China Koreshige Anami speaks May 27 during a news conference at the Japanese Embassy in Beijing.

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Japan, China exchange notes on FY 2004 yen loans

BEIJING, China - Japanese Ambassador to China Koreshige Anami (L) and Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wu Dawei shake hands at the Diaoyutai state guesthouse in Beijing on March 29 after exchanging notes on low-interest yen loans from Japan for fiscal 2004.

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Japanese envoy calls anti-Japan behavior 'regrettable'

BEIJING, China - Japanese Ambassador to China Koreshige Anami speaks at a press conference at the Japanese Embassy in Beijing on Aug. 13. Anami said that anti-Japanese behavior at the Asian Cup final between Japan and China on Aug. 7 was ''regrettable,'' adding that the incident should be examined further to find out why it happened.

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China slams Koizumi visit to Yasukuni Shrine

BEIJING, China - Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Yang Wenchang (R) summoned Japanese Ambassador Koreshige Anami (L) to his ministry in Beijing on Jan. 14 and protested Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit earlier in the day to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine. The shrine is dedicated to Japan's war dead and also honors convicted World War II war criminals.

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China steps up protest over disputed Senkaku islands

BEIJING, China - Japanese Ambassador to Beijing Koreshige Anami enters the Chinese Foreign Ministry by car on Dec. 5 to hear a formal Chinese protest against Japan's effort to lease land on three of the five Senkaku Islands, also claimed by China and Taiwan.

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Japan envoy to China apologizes for Shenyang fiasco

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Ambassador to China Koreshige Anami apologizes at the House of Representatives committee on foreign relations July 26 for mishandling an asylum bid by North Koreans who were seized by Chinese police at the Japanese Consulate General in Shenyang, northeastern China, in May.

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Japan envoy instructed asylum seekers be expelled

BEIJING, China - Japanese ambassador to China Koreshige Anami (file photo) told embassy staff in Beijing that any North Korean asylum seekers who entered the embassy were to be expelled, sources close to the embassy said on May 14. Anami gave the instructions just hours before five North Korean asylum seekers entered the Japanese Consulate General in Shenyang, northeastern China, on May 8.

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Anami to become Japan's envoy to China

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Yohei Kono decided Nov. 10 to appoint Koreshige Anami (file photo), director of the Cabinet Councilor's Office on External Affairs, as ambassador to China early next year. Anami, 59, will replace Sakutaro Tanino, 64, who is set to retire.

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Japan, N. Korea begin working-level talks

BEIJING, China - Koreshige Anami, director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian Affairs Bureau (C), invites O Ul Rok (R), head of the North Korean Foreign Ministry's Department No. 14 in charge of Japan affairs, to take seat at the beginning of working-level talks on normalization of diplomatic ties between the two countries at the Japanese Embassy in Beijing on Dec. 21.

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Japan, China exchange views in security dialogue

TOKYO, Japan - Koreshige Anami (R), director general of the Foreign Ministry's Asian Affairs Bureau, greets Zhang Jiuhuan, director of the Chinese Foreign Ministry's Asian Affairs Department, at the Foreign Ministry on Oct. 7 prior to talks on security policies.

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Japanese envoy calls anti-Japan behavior 'regrettable'

BEIJING, China - Japanese Ambassador to China Koreshige Anami speaks at a press conference at the Japanese Embassy in Beijing on Aug. 13. Anami said that anti-Japanese behavior at the Asian Cup final between Japan and China on Aug. 7 was ''regrettable,'' adding that the incident should be examined further to find out why it happened. (Kyodo)

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Japan, China exchange notes on FY 2004 yen loans

BEIJING, China - Japanese Ambassador to China Koreshige Anami (L) and Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wu Dawei shake hands at the Diaoyutai state guesthouse in Beijing on March 29 after exchanging notes on low-interest yen loans from Japan for fiscal 2004. (Kyodo)

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Ambassador says ill feelings most worrisome for Japan-China ties

BEIJING, China - Japan's outgoing Ambassador to China Koreshige Anami said at the Japanese Embassy in Beijing on March 24 that growing ill feelings between Japanese and Chinese people, rather than their governments' differences over Japan's wartime past, will be a bigger problem for the two countries in the long term. Anami made the remarks ahead of his departure next week after a five-year tenure. (Kyodo)

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China steps up protest over disputed Senkaku islands

BEIJING, China - Japanese Ambassador to Beijing Koreshige Anami enters the Chinese Foreign Ministry by car on Dec. 5 to hear a formal Chinese protest against Japan's effort to lease land on three of the five Senkaku Islands, also claimed by China and Taiwan. (Kyodo)

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Wu's shortened Japan trip a 'rare chance' lost: ambassador

BEIJING, China - Japanese Ambassador to China Koreshige Anami speaks May 27 during a news conference at the Japanese Embassy in Beijing. (Kyodo)

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(2) China conveys 'strong dissatisfaction' to Japan over Lee vis

BEIJING, China - Japanese Ambassador to China Koreshige Anami arrives in a car at the Chinese Foreign Ministry to meet Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wu Dawei on Dec. 22. Wu told Anami to convey to Tokyo Beijing's ''strong dissatisfaction and protest'' over Japan's issuance of a visa to former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui. (Kyodo)

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(1)China conveys 'strong dissatisfaction' to Japan over Lee visa

BEIJING, China - A carrying Japanese Ambassador to China Koreshige Anami arrives at the Chinese Foreign Ministry on Dec. 22. Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wu Dawei told Anami to convey to Tokyo Beijing's ''strong dissatisfaction and protest'' over Japan's issuance of a visa to former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui. (Kyodo)

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China expresses 'strong indignation' over shrine visit

BEIJING, China - Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing (R) summons Japanese Ambassador to China Koreshige Anami in Beijing on Oct. 17. He expressed Beijing's ''strong indignation'' over Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit to Tokyo's war-related Yasukuni Shrine earlier in the day. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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China slams Koizumi visit to Yasukuni Shrine

BEIJING, China - Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Yang Wenchang (R) summoned Japanese Ambassador Koreshige Anami (L) to his ministry in Beijing on Jan. 14 and protested Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit earlier in the day to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine. The shrine is dedicated to Japan's war dead and also honors convicted World War II war criminals. (Kyodo)

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Japan envoy to China apologizes for Shenyang fiasco

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Ambassador to China Koreshige Anami apologizes at the House of Representatives committee on foreign relations July 26 for mishandling an asylum bid by North Koreans who were seized by Chinese police at the Japanese Consulate General in Shenyang, northeastern China, in May. (kyodo)

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Japan envoy instructed asylum seekers be expelled

BEIJING, China - Japanese ambassador to China Koreshige Anami (file photo) told embassy staff in Beijing that any North Korean asylum seekers who entered the embassy were to be expelled, sources close to the embassy said on May 14. Anami gave the instructions just hours before five North Korean asylum seekers entered the Japanese Consulate General in Shenyang, northeastern China, on May 8.

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Anami named Japanese ambassador to China

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Yohei Kono appointed Jan. 6 Koreshige Anami (R), former director of the Cabinet Councilor's Office on External Affairs, ambassador to China, and Toshiyuki Takano (L), director general of the Foreign Ministry's Intelligence and Analysis Bureau, ambassador to Singapore.

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Anami to become Japan's envoy to China

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Yohei Kono decided Nov. 10 to appoint Koreshige Anami (file photo), director of the Cabinet Councilor's Office on External Affairs, as ambassador to China early next year. Anami, 59, will replace Sakutaro Tanino, 64, who is set to retire.

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Japan, N. Korea begin working-level talks

BEIJING, China - Koreshige Anami, director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian Affairs Bureau (C), invites O Ul Rok (R), head of the North Korean Foreign Ministry's Department No. 14 in charge of Japan affairs, to take seat at the beginning of working-level talks on normalization of diplomatic ties between the two countries at the Japanese Embassy in Beijing on Dec. 21.

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Japan, China exchange views in security dialogue

TOKYO, Japan - Koreshige Anami (R), director general of the Foreign Ministry's Asian Affairs Bureau, greets Zhang Jiuhuan, director of the Chinese Foreign Ministry's Asian Affairs Department, at the Foreign Ministry on Oct. 7 prior to talks on security policies.