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Reuters: Japan Government Support Slides On Handling Of China

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Tags: China, Japan, Naoto Kan, Politics

Support for Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan's government has slid to around 50 percent as voters are unhappy with how Tokyo has handled a bitter territorial feud with Beijing, newspaper polls showed on Monday.

Ties between Asia's two biggest economies deteriorated sharply after Japan's Coast Guard detained a Chinese trawler skipper whose boat collided last month with two of their patrol ships near disputed islands, which are claimed by both countries, in the East China Sea.

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