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  • Japan considers posting soldiers to protect embassies abroad in wake of China violence

    04/14/2005 5:07:28 AM PDT · by TigerLikesRooster · 19 replies · 528+ views
    AP ^ | 04/14/05
    Thursday April 14, 7:23 PMJapan considers posting soldiers to protect embassies abroad in wake of China violenceJapan's foreign minister urged China on Thursday to denounce a recent spate of anti-Japanese riots, and said Tokyo is considering posting its own military personnel abroad to protect its embassies. Protesters last weekend threw stones and broke windows at the Japanese Embassy in Beijing in a flare-up over Japanese textbooks that critics say downplay Tokyo's wartime aggression. Chinese officials said Japan was to blame for the outbreak. But Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura, who heads to Beijing for talks on Sunday, suggested in Parliament on...