Japan official resigns over A-bomb quip
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Japan's embattled defense minister resigned Tuesday over his comments suggesting the 1945 atomic bombings Hiroshima and Nagasaki were inevitable, news reports said. Fumio Kyuma had come under intense criticism from survivors of the bombing following the comments made over the weekend. He had apologized.
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Ministerial aide Jim Devine quits over plans to renew the UK's Trident nuclear weapons.
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SEOUL The chairman of Korea&#39;s governing party resigned on Thursday after it was disclosed that he had covered up his late father&#39;s military service during Japan&#39;s colonial rule.
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The chairman of South Korea&#39;s ruling party has resigned after acknowledging his father was a military police officer for Japan&#39;s occupying forces in Korea.
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Japan's agriculture minister resigned Monday only a week after his appointment because of a scandal involving misuse of farm subsidies, the fourth Cabinet minister to step down in the past year.
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Pressure mounted on Japan's defense minister to resign for remarks that appeared to accept the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, when a ruling coalition partner said he should "decide his own course", a phrase that is often code for urging a politician to quit.
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A Pakistani minister being investigated in connection with the death of a Canadian woman resigns.
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The chairman of South Korea's ruling Uri  Party resigned on Thursday after saying his father had served  as a military police officer during Japan's 1910-1945 colonial  rule on the peninsula.
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SEOUL  The chairman of South Korea&#39;s ruling Uri Party, Shin Ki Nam, resigned Thursday after it was disclosed that his father was a collaborator with Japanese colonial authorities during Japan&#39;s 1910-1945 rule of the Korean Peninsula.
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Japan&#39;s defense minister apologized again  on Tuesday for remarks appearing to accept the 1945 U.S. atomic  bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but opposition parties --  keen to woo voters ahead of this month&#39;s election -- insisted  that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe fire the gaffe-prone politician.
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Japan's prime minister sternly reprimanded the nation's defense minister for saying the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were an inevitable way of ending World War II, and asked him Monday to refrain from making similar remarks.
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The president of troubled retailer Daiei announced his resignation Friday, two days after he was forced by lenders to seek a government bailout.
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The president of NHK television -- Japan's public broadcaster -- resigned on Tuesday following a series of scandals including allegations this month that top politicians had pressured the network to censor a program about the use of sex slaves by Japanese troops during World War II.
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Japan&#39;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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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Wednesday that the Bank of Japan&#039;s embattled chief should stay on despite calls for his resignation amid an investment scandal, Kyodo News agency reported.
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As his defense minister resigns over his comments on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's goal of creating a more muscular Japan looks lost
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Fumio Kyuma, the defense minister, had made comments apparently justifying Americaâs use of atomic bombs against Japan during World War II.