China's reaction was, in the words of Seiji Maehara, Japan's foreign minister, "fairly hysterical".

中国的反应用日本外相前原诚司的话来形容，是“相当歇斯底里的”。

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Japan's Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara demanded the remaining Japanese being held be released quickly.

日本外务大臣前原诚司要求中方尽快释放被押日本公民。

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Japan's foreign minister, Seiji Maehara, complains that a tiny number of farmers hold the rest of the economy hostage.

日本外长前原诚司抱怨道，一小撮农民绑架了日本的经济。

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Seiji Maehara, the new foreign minister in Mr Kan's government, is on the party's realist wing.

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Seiji Maehara - the public's favourite - would, at 49, become Japan's youngest leader since World War II.

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"Democratic Party and LDP defense policy is basically the same, " says Seiji Maehara, a Democratic Party lower house member.

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