Japan apology urged on 'comfort women'
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A House committee is expected to endorse a resolution urging Japan to apologize formally for coercing thousands of women to work as sex slaves for its wartime military.
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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 said China apologized on Tuesday  for the intrusion by one of its submarines into Japanese waters  last week in a gesture that defuses a dispute and may open the  way for a bilateral summit this week.
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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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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday that Japan would not apologize again for forcing women, mostly Asian, to act as wartime sex slaves for its soldiers even if U.S. lawmakers adopt a resolution calling for an apology.
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Japan&#39;s Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura has urged the captors of Shosei Koda in Iraq to set him free. In an interview to Aljazeera&#39;s correspondent in Tokyo on Wednesday, he said, &quot;Koda is a civilian who
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Japan urged North Korea on Wednesday to comply with its international obligations amid reports the two countries had canceled an afternoon session of talks to establish diplomatic relations
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Turning the tables on Tokyo, North Korea  has called on Japan to investigate the case of one of its  nationals who went missing in 1991 while working in Russia,  saying it presumed Japan had abducted him.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday  that Japan would not apologize again for forcing women, mostly  Asian, to act as wartime sex slaves for its soldiers even if  U.S. lawmakers adopt a resolution calling for an apology.
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Furor over the issue of war-era sex slaves highlighted yet again Japanâs unresolved history in the region.
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Tokyo - The parents of a 24-year-old Japanese traveller who was kidnapped and beheaded in Iraq said on Sunday they hoped for peace in the insurgency-torn country and apologised for the trouble caused by the crisis.
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BEIJING - Japan pressed North Korea to provide fuller accounts of 10 Japanese who Tokyo says were abducted by the North in their second day of working-level talks Sunday, but the North did not provide new information in the morning session, Japan&#39;s
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Japan's PM Yasuo Fukuda calls for greater discipline from defence officials following a series of scandals.
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Feeling betrayed by the North Korea talks, Tokyo wants the U.S.  -  and a visiting Dick Cheney  -  to show some love
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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's defence minister apologized on Sunday for comments about the 1945 U.S. atomic bomb attacks on the country that outraged survivors and drew criticism from the ruling bloc ahead of a key election in July.
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Shinzo Abe, the front-runner to be Japan's next prime minister, said there was no need to make a freshly worded apology over the nation's war atrocities.