Japan Resists Call to Apologize for War Practice
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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.
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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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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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North Korea has warned Japan that it will treat economic sanctions as a &quot;declaration of war&quot; and threatens to try to exclude Tokyo from six-party talks on Pyongyang&#39;s nuclear arms programs.
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A congressional panel on Tuesday endorsed overwhelmingly a resolution urging Japan to apologize formally for coercing thousands of women to work as sex slaves for its World War II military.
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Japan&#39;s main opposition leader on Thursday rebuffed an appeal by visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel to keep supporting the &quot;war on terror&quot; in Afghanistan, an official said.
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China extended an apology Tuesday to Tokyo after admitting that one of its submarines intruded into Japan&#39;s territorial waters off Okinawa last week, an incident it laid to &quot;technical errors,&quot; Japanese officials said.
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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 weekend.
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Japan's foreign minister Taro Aso has denounced a resolution before the US Congress demanding that Tokyo make amends for forcing foreign women into sexual slavery during World War II.
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TOYKO, Japan -- North Korea has warned Japan that it would treat economic sanctions against the nation as a &quot;declaration of war&quot; as a row brews over the remains of abductees.
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Japan, under diplomatic fire for appearing to sidestep responsibility for forcing women to act as wartime sex slaves for its soldiers, said on Wednesday that the government stood by a 1993 apology acknowledging coercion.
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Japan has protested to North Korea and threatened to cut food aid after an incident involving the ashes of a Japanese woman. Tokyo&#39;s has accused Pyongyang of handing over other people&#39;s ashes to prove the
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Japan needs cluster bombs to protect itself and opposes an international ban on the weapons being discussed in Peru, the defence minister said Friday.
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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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Japan said on Friday it would urge North Korea to reinvestigate the fate of Japanese citizens abducted decades ago, and threatened to take &quot;harsh&quot; action unless the reclusive communist state responded &quot;sincerely&quot;.
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Conservative Japanese politicians, scholars and journalists plan to write to U.S. lawmakers urging them to revoke a resolution calling on Tokyo to apologize for forcing women to serve as sex slaves during World War Two.
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Japan's defence minister apologises for saying the US atom bomb attacks in World War II were inevitable.