Japan regrets US move for sex slave apology
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Japan voiced regret Tuesday as the US Congress moved forward with a resolution demanding an unambiguous apology from Tokyo for forcing Asian women into sexual slavery before and during World War II.
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China tells Japan to take responsibility for its use of sex slaves in WWII, amid a row sparked by its prime minister.
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Japan has denounced the beheading of a Japanese hostage in Iraq after a day that saw the heaviest US casualties for six months and the bloodiest attack on a media organisation since the start of the war.
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TOKYO  - China offered Japan the apology it demanded for the intrusion of a nuclear submarine in its waters and said the incident would not further sour the Asian powers&#39; relations, Japanese officials revealed.
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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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Top Japanese officials on Tuesday  deplored the suspected rape of a 14-year-old girl by a U.S.  Marine on the southern island of Okinawa, an episode with  echoes of a 1995 incident that jolted the U.S.-Japan security  alliance.
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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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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 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&#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&#39;s defence minister apologised Sunday after sparking outrage over remarks which implied that the atomic bombs dropped by the United States on Japan were the inevitable way to end World War II.
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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&#39;s defense 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'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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Japan on Tuesday warned it might sanctions against North Korea after accusing the communist country of failing to properly investigate the fates of Japanese citizens it kidnapped years ago.
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Japan on Friday requested an apology and explanation from China over a submarine that intruded into Japanese waters, but Tokyo restrained its protest to avoid further straining relations with Beijing.
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Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and other Japanese leaders on Tuesday voiced outrage over an American Marine's alleged rape of a 14-year-old girl in Okinawa, saying they were fed up with crimes by US troops.