TOKYO -- Japan calls China an "important neighbor" in a draft version of a key Japanese foreign policy document presented by the government on Tuesday, a change from the current version calling the relationship "one of Japan's most important bilateral relations."
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Ties between Japan and China have soured since Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's remarks on Taiwan. © Reuters
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