Japan defense minister quits over A-bomb remark
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Japan's defense minister resigned on Tuesday over remarks that appeared to accept the 1945 atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, attempting to quell the latest furor plaguing the ruling camp ahead of an election this month.
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The rest two members of the inspection team from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA),who are probing South Korea&#39;s uranium case, left the country on Sunday, a government
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A scandal-tainted minister in Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's cabinet has committed suicide, media reported on Monday, compounding problems for the Japanese leader whose support had already dived ahead of a July election.
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defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov has resigned, Russia's new prime minister said on Tuesday as President Vladimir Putin considered his proposed cabinet lineup.
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Japanese opposition parties tell the health minister to resign for calling women "birth-giving machines".
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Pressure mounted on Japan's defense minister to resign for remarks that appeared to accept the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, when a ruling coalition partner said he should "decide his own course", a phrase that is often code for urging a politician to quit.
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Japan's embattled defense minister resigned Tuesday over his comments suggesting the 1945 atomic bombings Hiroshima and Nagasaki were inevitable, news reports said. Fumio Kyuma had come under intense criticism from survivors of the bombing following the comments made over the weekend. He had apologized.
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Japan's defense minister said Saturday that the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States during World War II was an inevitable way to end the war.
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Japan's prime minister sternly reprimanded the nation's defense minister for saying the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were an inevitable way of ending World War II, and asked him Monday to refrain from making similar remarks.
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The president of NHK television -- Japan's public broadcaster -- resigned on Tuesday following a series of scandals including allegations this month that top politicians had pressured the network to censor a program about the use of sex slaves by Japanese troops during World War II.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Cabinet resigned Tuesday, clearing the way for new ruling party leader Yasuo Fukuda to be named by parliament as his successor later in the day.
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A top aide to Swedish PM Goeran Persson quits after criticism over his response to the Asian tsunami.
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The chairman of South Korea's ruling Uri Party admits his father worked for Japan's military, and resigns.
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Japan&#39;s defense minister apologized on  Sunday for comments about the 1945 U.S. atomic bomb attacks on  the country which outraged survivors and drew criticism from  the ruling bloc ahead of a key election in late July.
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Japan's farm minister, Toshikatsu Matsuoka -- under fire for a series of political funding scandals -- has killed himself, NHK said on Monday.
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Ministerial aide Jim Devine quits over plans to renew the UK's Trident nuclear weapons.
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Japanese Defense Minister Fumio Kyuma   said on Friday that China's military build-up was a concern   rather than a threat, retracting earlier comments that had   triggered a rebuttal from Beijing.