Japan says it stands by apology on WW2 sex slaves
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Japan, under diplomatic fire for appearing to sidestep responsibility for forcing women to act as wartime sex slaves for its soldiers, said on Wednesday that the government stood by a 1993 apology acknowledging coercion.
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Japan's top court has a damages suit brought by South Koreans forced to work as sex slaves or soldiers by the Japanese Imperial Army, saying their suffering in World War II cannot be compensated under the post-war constitution.
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Japan's Foreign Ministry spokesman,    Hatsuhisa Takashima , said here last week that his country had been active in the rebuilding of Afghanistan.
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Japan will look again at the facts behind its wartime use of sex slaves, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Thursday, the first step towards a potential revision of a landmark apology.
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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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South Korea again criticized Japan's prime minister Saturday for disavowing his country's responsibility for using Asian women as sex slaves for Japanese troops in World War II.
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Japan's new prime minister, Yasuo Fukuda, apologized on Friday but denied wrongdoing after a newspaper reported that his office had altered the names of political support groups on receipts for donations, Kyodo news agency said.
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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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Japan's relations with the United States are "unshakable" despite a U.S. congressional resolution urging a further apology from Tokyo over wartime sex slaves, the Japanese government spokesman said Wednesday.
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Japan will go ahead with food aid to  North Korea despite its dissatisfaction with Pyongyang's  failure to clarify the fate of Japanese citizens kidnapped  decades ago, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said on  Wednesday.
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China tells Japan to take responsibility for its use of sex slaves in WWII, amid a row sparked by its prime minister.
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Japan said on Friday it would urge North Korea to reinvestigate the fate of Japanese citizens abducted decades ago, and threatened to take &quot;harsh&quot; action unless the reclusive communist state responded &quot;sincerely&quot;.
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Japan must atone for the atrocities committed during World World Two through concrete measures, South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun said on Thursday, adding it was key to better ties between the two countries.
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The US ambassador to Japan offered a personal apology Wednesday over a US Marine's alleged rape of a young girl in Okinawa, amid warnings that the incident will damage the countries' alliance.
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TOKYO - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi reiterated Friday that the government has no plans to ask Yasukuni Shrine to separate the enshrined war dead from convicted Class-A war criminals who were executed after World War II in an effort to mend soured
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Japanese politicians played down Sunday the significance of a US proposed resolution demanding Japan apologise over use of sex slaves, many of them Chinese and Korean women, during World War II.
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China has admitted that its submarine intruded into Japanese waters last week and apologized over the incident, Japan's top government spokesman Hiroyuki Hosoda told a news conference Tuesday.