Japan MPs play down 1937 killings
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A group of Japanese MPs claims China exaggerated the number of people killed in the Nanjing attack.
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Japan's ruling party is to hold a new inquiry into the use of sex slaves by the army during World War II.
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As talks with North Korea progress, families fear Japanese citizens snatched 30 years ago are forgotten
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A congressional resolution on women forced into prostitution by the Japanese military highlights Tokyo's evasion
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Japan on Wednesday brushed aside growing pressure from US lawmakers for a fresh apology for Tokyo&#39;s wartime sexual enslavement of an estimated 200,000 women.
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Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is girding for a showdown in parliament over naval back-up for U.S.-led military operations in Afghanistan, but voters say they would rather he focused on pensions and healthcare.
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The beheading of a Japanese hostage in Iraq renewed pressure on Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to withdraw his country&#39;s troops, as the opposition blamed his pro-US policy for the slaying.
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Japan&#39;s defense minister apologized again  on Tuesday for remarks appearing to accept the 1945 U.S. atomic  bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but opposition parties --  keen to woo voters ahead of this month&#39;s election -- insisted  that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe fire the gaffe-prone politician.
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A senior Japanese politician says the US atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945 was  inexcusable and a crime.
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Former Japanese Prime Minister and veteran lawmaker Kiichi Miyazawa dies at the age of 87.
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Japan's lower house passed bills on Friday that would allow crime victims and their families to question the accused and recommend sentences, a move critics fear could turn the courtroom into a theatre of vengeance.
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A senior ruling party lawmaker who is at the center of a controversy over Japan's ban on nuclear weapons said on Monday the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were a crime.
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TOKYO: Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi appeared on Monday to have won public backing for his refusal to pull Japanese troops out of Iraq despite the weekend beheading of a Japanese hostage.
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An influential Japanese politician seen as a top contender to become prime minister has acknowledged intervening over a TV program on the sensitive topic of the late Emperor Hirohito's responsibility for war crimes.
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Japan&#39;s prime minister on Monday said he was not satisfied with the outcome of North Korea&#39;s investigation into the fate of several Japanese nationals abducted decades ago by the communist country&#39;s spies.
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Japanese lawmakers called for sanctions against North Korea after the government decided information provided on 10 missing kidnap victims was not credible.
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Japan's opposition-controlled upper house on Friday voted down a bill to resume a naval mission supporting the US-led "war on terror," a decision doomed to be overriden by the lower house.