China Says Japan Should 'Face Up' to History About WWII Sex Slaves
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BEIJING, March 6 -- The Japanese government should acknowledge that thousands of foreign women were forced to serve as sex slaves for Japanese troops in World War II, Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing said Tuesday.
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China&#39;s lawyers association has urged  making slavery a specific crime, an official newspaper reported  on Tuesday in the wake of a trial of brick-kiln operators  accused of brutally exploiting trapped workers.
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China, rocked by a brick kiln child slavery scandal, plans to set up a national panel to stop human trafficking, aimed at protecting women and children from forced labor and prostitution, state media reported on Tuesday.
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Japan urged China to use its growing influence to make an impact on key global issues such as climate change during summit talks Friday that reflected the countries' warmer ties
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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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Japan on Wednesday offered fresh aid to Mekong River nations while issuing a gentle reminder on human rights as it sought to counter China's growing influence in the region.
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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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Japan urged China to use its growing influence to make an impact on key global issues such as climate change during summit talks Friday that reflected the countries' warmer ties.
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TOKYO Japan warned North Korea on Friday of a &quot;serious response&quot; if it was not more forthcoming on the status of Japanese people it kidnapped in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday that Japan will not apologize for forcing Asian women to act as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers even if a U.S. House of Representatives resolution demanding such an apology is adopted.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Thursday there was no evidence Japan coerced Asian women into working as sex slaves during World War II, backtracking from a landmark 1993 statement in which the government acknowledged that it set up and ran brothels for its troops.
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South Korea again criticized Japan's prime minister Saturday for disavowing his country's responsibility for using Asian women as sex slaves for Japanese troops in World War II.
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TOKYO - Japan and China should try to resolve their differences calmly, China&#39;s ambassador to Japan said Saturday, a day after Tokyo filed a protest with Beijing over the intrusion of a Chinese nuclear submarine.
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Japan will ask North Korea to relaunch probes into the fate of Japanese citizens it abducted after false evidence presented earlier led to calls for sanctions against the communist state, reports said.
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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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HONGTONG, China  - China has promised a sweeping crackdown on a slave labor scandal in a poor part of the country where poverty and unbridled growth have made work abuses commonplace.
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Facing strong protests, China broke a week-long silence Tuesday and offered Japan its first explanation about a Chinese submarine that Tokyo said intruded into Japanese territorial waters and refused to signal its identity.