Japan party probes sex slave use
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Japan's ruling party is to hold a new inquiry into the use of sex slaves by the army during World War II.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sought on  Sunday to contain fallout from his remarks about women forced  to act as wartime sex slaves for Japanese soldiers as the furor  threatened to cloud summits with Chinese and U.S. leaders.
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Japan on Wednesday brushed aside growing pressure from US lawmakers for a fresh apology for Tokyo&#39;s wartime sexual enslavement of an estimated 200,000 women.
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After referring to women as "baby-making machines", Japan's health minister could be going out with the bathwater
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House Speaker Dennis Hastert has asked the Justice Department to investigate how lawmakers handled allegations that Rep. Mark Foley exchanged sexually explicit messages with teenage congressional pages. The move comes after Democrats questioned whether the House's GOP leadership had squelched concerns about Foley, a Republican who now has resigned.
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Police in Japan are investigating allegations that four U.S. Marines raped a 19-year-old Japanese woman, media and officials said, the latest episode to plague the U.S. military's relations with local communities.
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TOKYO - A House of Representatives lawmaker belonging to a lawmakers&#39; group supporting abductees and their relatives said Monday the Japanese delegation that returned to Tokyo from Pyongyang earlier in the day brought bones believed those of Megumi
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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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Japanese politicians played down Sunday the significance of a US proposed resolution demanding Japan apologise over use of sex slaves, many of them Chinese and Korean women, during World War II.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sought on Sunday to contain fallout from his remarks about women forced to act as wartime sex slaves for Japanese soldiers as the furor threatened to cloud summits with Chinese and U.S. leaders.
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A Japanese government panel begins work on whether to recommend women be allowed to take the throne.
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Japan has made last-ditch efforts to secure the release of a Japanese hostage facing execution in Iraq. A Japanese government official says efforts are still being made to free Shosei Koda, 24, but there have been no reports of any progress.
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TOKYO, March 1 -- Japan's prime minister denied Thursday 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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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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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday  that Japan would not apologize again for forcing women, mostly  Asian, to act as wartime sex slaves for its soldiers even if  U.S. lawmakers adopt a resolution calling for an apology.
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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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Japan's ruling party considers proposing constitutional changes to let women take the throne, reports say.