Japan PM calls Okinawa rape case "unforgivable"
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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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The Japanese government says it is undeterred in its fight against terrorism, following the killing of a Japanese hostage in Iraq.
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threat by a militant group to behead a Japanese hostage within 48 hours unless Tokyo pulls its forces out. &quot;We cannot tolerate terrorism and we will not give in to terrorism,&quot; Koizumi told reporters on Wednesday.
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Earlier Tuesday Japan&#39;s Justice Ministry rejected his demand to stay in the country, saying no justification had been found to grant him protection as a political refugee.
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A U.S. Marine based on Okinawa has been arrested in connection with the reported rape of a 14-year-old Japanese girl, the island's police force said Monday.
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Japan hasn&#39;t confirmed a news report that a body, believed to be that of an Asian male, was found in Iraq, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi told reporters in Tokyo.
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Japan on Tuesday warned it might sanctions against North Korea after accusing the communist country of failing to properly investigate the fates of Japanese citizens it kidnapped years ago.
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Video posted Tuesday on a militant Islamic Web site showed what it claimed was a Japanese captive kidnapped by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's group and threatened to behead him within 48 hours unless Japan pulls its troops from Iraq. Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi rejected the demand.
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Japan will go ahead with food aid to  North Korea despite its dissatisfaction with Pyongyang's  failure to clarify the fate of Japanese citizens kidnapped  decades ago, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said on  Wednesday.
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Condemnations rang out from several corners in Japan today after a 38-year-old U.S. Marine was accused of raping a 14-year-old local girl in Okinawa. Police also released more details of the alleged crime, saying the Marine had offered to take the girl home on his motorcycle.
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Japan's operation of military brothels during World War II was "deplorable," but the issue can only be resolved by Tokyo and its Asian neighbors, a top U.S. official said Friday, as victims expressed outrage at the Japanese prime minister's denial that women were forced into sexual slavery.
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Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura said Tuesday he will press his country's case in Washington this week for reducing what he called the "the excessive burden" placed on Okinawa by the presence of U.S. troops.
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A U.S. Marine was arrested on suspicion of raping a 14-year-old Japanese girl on the southern island of Okinawa, police said on Monday, triggering anger from an area where the U.S. military presence is widely resented.
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The U.S. ambassador visited Okinawa on Wednesday to quell rising anger over the arrest of an American Marine on suspicion of raping a 14-year-old schoolgirl Â the type of crime that sparked massive protests against the U.S. military in the 1990s.
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Japan's relations with the United States are "unshakable" despite a U.S. congressional resolution urging a further apology from Tokyo over wartime sex slaves, the Japanese government spokesman said Wednesday.
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TOKYO: Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi appeared on Monday to have won public backing for his refusal to pull Japanese troops out of Iraq despite the weekend beheading of a Japanese hostage.
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Japanese PM Shinzo Abe says Japan will not issue another apology for its World War II military brothels.