Japan Official Quits in Bomb Remarks
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Japanâs embattled defense minister resigned over his comments suggesting the 1945 atomic bombings Hiroshima and Nagasaki were inevitable.
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As his defense minister resigns over his comments on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's goal of creating a more muscular Japan looks lost
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TOKYO, Sept. 12 -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced Wednesday he would resign, ending a year-old government that has suffered a string of damaging scandals and a humiliating electoral defeat.
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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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Labour's Nigel Griffiths quits as a minister in protest at plans to renew the UK's Trident nuclear weapon system.
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Japan's farm minister resigned on Monday over illegal dealings at a farmers' group he headed, public broadcaster NHK reported, dealing a fresh blow to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe just a week after he revamped his cabinet.
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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 head of South Korea&#39;s ruling party resigned yesterday amid suggestions that he had covered up his father&#39;s past as a military policeman for Japanese occupiers. The resignation comes during renewed national debate on the role of collaborators under ...
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Japan's PM Shinzo Abe rebukes a minister over WWII atom bomb comments, as his poll ratings drop further.
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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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Japan&#39;s farm minister resigned on Monday  over illegal dealings at a farmers&#39; group he headed, public  broadcaster NHK reported, dealing a fresh blow to Prime  Minister Shinzo Abe just a week after he revamped his cabinet.
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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi&#39;s entire Cabinet resigned Monday ahead of a planned reshuffle that Japanese leader hopes will solidify his power and boost his ability to carry out reforms.
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A Pakistani minister being investigated in connection with the death of a Canadian woman resigns.
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The chairman of South Korea&#39;s ruling party has resigned after acknowledging his father was a military police officer for Japan&#39;s occupying forces in Korea.
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Japan's agriculture minister resigned Monday only a week after his appointment because of a scandal involving misuse of farm subsidies, the fourth Cabinet minister to step down in the past year.
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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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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.