Okinawa anger at textbook plans
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The Japanese island of Okinawa protests at plans to revise textbook accounts of army WWII activities.
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Junji Nakamura, president of Japanese publisher Tecmo, has slammed Sony&#39;s plans for the PlayStation 3, accusing the firm of allowing its ambitions in the home appliance space to overshadow its commitment to games.
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A new history textbook for Arab-Israeli students give a negative view of Israel's creation for the first time.
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Japanese Trade Minister Shoichi Nakagawa expressed anger on Sunday at the intrusion into Japanese waters of what Tokyo believes was a Chinese submarine and hinted at repercussions on economic aid to China.
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Japan was warned Friday it risks international anger if it includes endangered humpbacks in its annual whale cull, after threatening to pull out of the 75-nation International Whaling Commission.
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A school text book for Arab children in Israel has sparked an outcry among rightist Jews by including a reference for the first time to the Palestinian view of the Jewish state's founding as a "catastrophe".
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Japan TOKYO -- Japan lodged a formal protest with Beijing yesterday after determining that a nuclear submarine that entered its territorial waters without identifying itself belonged to China. Japan's navy had been on alert since Wednesday, when the submarine was first spotted off the nation's southern island of Okinawa. Tokyo sent reconnaissance aircraft and naval destroyers to shadow the submarine, ...
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The U.S. military in Okinawa ordered its members and their families on Wednesday to restrict their movements after the arrest last week of a Marine on suspicion of raping a 14-year-old girl.
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Education officials' plan to convert a landmark into a school is irking those intent on preserving the building's past.
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Taiwan plans to revise school textbooks to drop references that recognize Chinese historical figures, places and artifacts as "national," an official said Sunday.
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Angry lawmakers on Japan's southern island of Okinawa called for progress on shrinking the U.S. military presence and tighter discipline among U.S. troops after the arrest of a U.S. Marine on suspicion of raping a local schoolgirl.
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Japan is seeking permission from the  World Trade Organisation (WTO) to retaliate against the United  States over a controversial U.S. method for dealing with  unfairly priced imports, a WTO document showed on Friday.
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The deployment of USAF F-22 jets to a base on Japan's Okinawa island prompts protests from residents.
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The families of Japanese kidnapped  decades ago by North Korean agents lashed out at the secretive  communist state on Monday, saying it had lied about the fate of  their loved ones.
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TOKYO, June 5  - Kansei frowns when he hears the  word "bomb," smiles at "sushi" and looks scared and disgusted  when someone says "president" -- and he isn't even human.
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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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Japan plans to lodge a strong protest with North Korea over a dispute tied to the communist state's abductions of Japanese citizens decades ago, a news report said Friday.