Japan shuns US pressure for &#39;comfort women&#39; apology
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Japan on Wednesday brushed aside calls from US lawmakers for a fresh apology to wartime sex slaves, even as the former &quot;comfort women&quot; renewed their demands for Tokyo to acknowledge their plight.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday that Japan will not apologize for forcing Asian women to act as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers even if a U.S. House of Representatives resolution demanding such an apology is adopted.
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Japan will not apologize again for its World War II military brothels, even if the U.S. Congress passes a resolution demanding it, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told parliament Monday.
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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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TOKYO  - China offered Japan the apology it demanded for the intrusion of a nuclear submarine in its waters and said the incident would not further sour the Asian powers&#39; relations, Japanese officials revealed.
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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 says China has apologized for one of its submarines sailing into Japanese waters last week. China has refused to confirm the apology, saying only that a &quot;diplomatic&quot; resolution has been reached.
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Japan'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 took a significant step away from the pacifism enshrined in its constitution yesterday when it announced new defence guidelines for the first time in nearly a decade.
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Japan has warned leaders of the House of Representatives that serious, long-term damage to Japanese-U.S. relations is likely if the House passes a resolution demanding an official apology from Japan for its wartime policy of forcing women to become sex slaves for Japanese soldiers.
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Japan says it will not rush to impose sanctions after North  Korea withdraws from nuclear talks "indefinitely".
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Japan backed off its plan to push for a   vote on North Korean sanctions at the U.N. Security Council on   Monday in the face of continued efforts by regional powers to   resolve a missile crisis through direct diplomacy.
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Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and other Japanese leaders on Tuesday voiced outrage over an American Marine's alleged rape of a 14-year-old girl in Okinawa, saying they were fed up with crimes by US troops.
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Tokyo: Japan said on Friday it had not given up hope for a Japanese hostage in Iraq after a report he may have been killed, as the 24-year-old&#39;s mother pleaded to Islamic militants to spare him.
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Top Japanese officials on Tuesday deplored the suspected rape of a 14-year-old girl by a U.S. Marine on the southern island of Okinawa, an episode with echoes of a 1995 incident that jolted the U.S.-Japan security alliance.
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Japan says it will not rush to impose sanctions after North Korea withdraws from nuclear talks "indefinitely".
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The United States has rejected a request by Japan that it verify Tokyo's contribution to the US-led "war on terror" in Afghanistan is not used for military operations in Iraq, a report said Sunday.