Japan blasts US bill on 'comfort women'
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Japan's foreign minister Taro Aso has denounced a resolution before the US Congress demanding that Tokyo make amends for forcing foreign women into sexual slavery during World War II.
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Japan has denounced the beheading of a Japanese hostage in Iraq after a day that saw the heaviest US casualties for six months and the bloodiest attack on a media organisation since the start of the war.
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Japan slammed U.S. military discipline as slack on Monday, and it plans to raise the issue with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice next week after a series of minor crimes following the arrest of a Marine for rape.
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Japanese stocks were hit badly on Friday by fears of rising global interest rates following sharp overnight increases in US and European bond yields.
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European business leaders in Japan lambasted on Wednesday a plan by the nation's ruling party to ban prepaid cell phones as a move that would raise questions about discrimination against a foreign-owned carrier.
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Japan's top three banks are expected to  resist a request to put up a total of $15 billion for a  U.S.-led subprime rescue fund, a move that could further cloud  prospects for the bailout plan.
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Japan's top three banks are expected to resist a request to put up a total of $15 billion for a U.S.-led subprime rescue fund, a move that could further cloud prospects for the bailout plan.
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Japan raises concerns over Russia's decision to withdraw support for the Sakhalin 2 energy project.
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Three Japanese banks that have been asked  to provide $5 billion each to a subprime support fund planned  by U.S. banks have balked at what they see as an unreasonably  high figure, the Nikkei business daily reported on Saturday.
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Three women who were forced into sexual servitude by Japan in World War Two on Thursday told the U.S. Congress harrowing tales of abuse and said they rejected Japanese official apologies as an insult.
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Japan's upper house of parliament rejected a bill Friday to revive a naval mission to support U.S.-led forces in the Indian Ocean, but the ruling party was expected to push the measure into law in the lower chamber.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday that Japan would not apologize again for forcing women, mostly Asian, to act as wartime sex slaves for its soldiers even if U.S. lawmakers adopt a resolution calling for an apology.
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Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura said Tuesday he will press his country's case in Washington this week for reducing what he called the "the excessive burden" placed on Okinawa by the presence of U.S. troops.
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Japanese wife, Hitomi Soga, resolving a diplomatic headache for Japan and its close ally, the United States. Japan has asked for leniency out of sympathy for Jenkins wife.
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Japanese conservative activists on Friday protested US congressional demands for a clear apology over wartime sexual slavery, saying the women were not slaves but just making money.
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Japan has accused Russia of violating its airspace over and demanded an explanation.
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Japanese stocks were hit badly on Friday morning by fears of rising global interest rates following sharp overnight increases in US and European bond yields.