Abe questions sex slave 'coercion'
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Japan's PM Shinzo Abe says there is no evidence to prove women were forced to be sex slaves during World War II.
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A British MEP prompts controversy after being accused of likening new powers with some given to Hitler in 1933.
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Questions are raised about the mental state of the prison's senior officer just before the abuses there
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The beheading of a Japanese hostage in Iraq renewed pressure on Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to withdraw his country&#39;s troops, as the opposition blamed his pro-US policy for the slaying.
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TOKYO -- Japan's nationalist prime minister denied yesterday that the country's military forced women into sexual slavery during World War II, casting doubt on a past government apology and jeopardizing a fragile detente with his Asian neighbors.
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Allegations that a Japanese public television network was pressured by politicians to soft-pedal a program on Japan's legacy of sexual enslavement during World War II has pitted liberal Japanese media against their conservative counterparts.
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A Briton has been arrested on suspicion of child abuse after allegedly keeping a teenage Thai boy as his sex slave, according to Thai police and reports.
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By questioning an apology over forced prostitution during World War II, the prime minister may pay a diplomatic price
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has voiced concern about China's satellite-destroying test, charging that Beijing had violated international law.
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When a band teacher was arrested here and charged with sexually abusing 16 students, jaws dropped at the allegations: Police said the teacher had tied young girls to chairs with duct tape and rope and then re-enacted bondage scenes from his porn collection. Investigators now say the school district in this blue-collar Chicago suburb had received complaints about the teacher years earlier and had warned him in 2001 against "inappropriate touching" but never reported him.
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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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Will Japanese PM stir controversy with his New Year's day visit to a shrine honoring war criminals?
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe refused to back down Monday in a row over whether the military used Asian women as sex slaves during World War II, repeating that there was no evidence of coercion.
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Coercion doesnât work. Empathy is a more powerful tool than you might think. A veteran Air Force interrogator who grilled prisoners in Iraq talks about how to gather information during wartime.
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Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Thursday that ruling party lawmakers will conduct a fresh investigation into the Japanese military's use of brothels during World War II.
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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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The U.S. Congress is considering a demand that Japan apologize for its use of sexual slaves during World War II.