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All posts tagged "Japan"

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  US newspaper ad to urge Abe to apologize for wartime sexual slavery

  WASHINGTON, March 17 (Yonhap) — A full-page advertisement will appear in a U.S. newspaper this week to urge Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to apologize for the country’s sexual enslavement of women for its troops during World...

  • Posted March 17, 2015
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  UN chief urges S. Korea, Japan, China, to reconcile

  TOKYO (AP) — U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged the leaders of Japan, China and South Korea on Monday to work harder for reconciliation over their wartime past to ensure peace and stability in the region. In...

  • Posted March 16, 2015
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  S. Korea, Japan to hold sex slavery talks

  SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea and Japan were to hold talks on Tokyo’s sexual enslavement of Korean women during World War II on Monday as the two historical rivals make efforts to improve their strained ties in...

  • Posted March 16, 2015
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  China media prods Japan to make ‘heartfelt’ apology over wartime past

  BEIJING, March 10 (Yonhap) — Japan must learn from Germany and heal the damage and suffering it inflicted on its neighbors during World War II with a “heartfelt” apology, a newspaper published by China’s ruling Communist Party...

  • Posted March 10, 2015
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  Japanese scholar prods own country to face up to WWII misdeeds towards S. Korea

  By Lee Min-hyung A liberal Japanese history professor has called on Korea and Japan to step up critical history education to enable the two nations to have a better understanding of wartime atrocities and promote world peace....

  • Posted February 18, 2015
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  China urges Japan to honor apology over WWII aggression

  BEIJING (Yonhap) — China on Friday called for Japan to honor its past apology over wartime aggression, saying Tokyo could not genuinely warm ties with its neighbors unless it faces up to history “with honesty.” China’s foreign...

  • Posted February 13, 2015
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  U.S. scholars express strong protest against Japan’s attempt to ‘censor history’

  WASHINGTON (Yonhap) — A group of American history scholars expressed strong protest against Japan’s attempts to pressure a textbook publisher to change the description of the country’s sexual enslavement of women during World War II, saying no...

  • Posted February 5, 2015
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