Japan Ministers Pay Homage at Shrine for War Dead
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Three Japanese ministers paid homage at a  controversial shrine for war dead Sunday, the 59th anniversary  of Japan's World War II surrender, a move that drew anger from  Asian neighbors.
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi  reiterated on Wednesday that he wanted at some point to visit  Iraq, where Japanese troops are engaged in reconstruction work.
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Japan&#39;s cabinet paid silent tribute Tuesday to the farm minister a day after his suicide as a second official killed himself in a scandal described as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe&#39;s most serious crisis.
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Former Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui visited a Tokyo war shrine Thursday to pay respects to his late brother, drawing a quick rebuke from China and complicating already delicate relations between Beijing and Tokyo.
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Servicemen and women who died in wars are remembered across Wales on Remembrance Day.
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HUNDREDS of people came together on Sunday to lay wreaths and salute those who lost their lives during the two world wars and other conflicts.
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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.
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French Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie and Britain's Princess Anne presided over a ceremony commemorating the members of the SAS who lost their lives during World War II.
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Former Taiwan president Lee Teng-hui, despised by Beijing for asserting the self-ruled island's sovereignty, paid his respects at Tokyo's Yasukuni war shrine on Thursday, despite China's objections.
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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi headed to northern Japan on Tuesday to survey the damage wrought by the deadliest earthquakes to hit the country in nearly a decade, while the death toll from the quakes rose to 31.
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Japan's defense minister said Saturday that the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States during World War II was an inevitable way to end the war, drawing criticism from atomic bomb survivors.
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Japan and South Korea, long at odds over their wartime history, should be linked by a railway tunnel under the sea symbolising peaceful ties, a group of Japanese lawmakers was reported as saying on Friday.
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MOUNT OMINE, Japan -- At 5 a.m. on a summer day already sticky with humidity, three dozen ascetic priests known as ''yamabushi&quot; -- ''those who lie down in the mountains&quot; -- have gathered at the foot of this mountain in southern Japan to pray before climbing its sacred slopes.
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The first minister pays tribute to the Scottish soldiers who lost their lives at the Battle of Arnhem in a ceremony in Holland.
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Thousands of Ukrainian officials and railway workers paid tribute on Wednesday to Transport Minister Heorhiy Kyrpa, found dead with a gunshot wound to the head a day after the opposition chief won a ...
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Bells gently tolled as Ukrainian and foreign dignitaries on Wednesday commemorated the 65th anniversary of the Nazi massacre of Jews at the Babi Yar ravine, placing flower-encircled candles at the foot of a giant monument to the tens of thousands of victims.
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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Sunday condemned the beheading of a young Japanese backpacker in Iraq and vowed that Japan would not withdraw its troops from the US-led coalition.