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All posts tagged "Japan"

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  Seoul confirms 2,091 more Koreans as victims of Japan’s forced labor

  SEOUL (Yonhap) — An additional 2,091 South Koreans have been confirmed as victims of forced labor by imperial Japan who ruled the Korean Peninsula as a colony during the first half of the 20th century, the Seoul...

  • Posted January 22, 2015
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  [Guardian] Japan urges US publisher to remove comfort women from textbooks

    Japan has taken its campaign to rewrite its wartime history into the classroom with demands that a United States publisher remove “inaccurate” descriptions of tens of thousands of women who were forced to work...

  • Posted January 16, 2015
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  U.S. calls for Japan to build ‘strong, constructive’ ties with S. Korea, China

  WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (Yonhap) — The United States called Tuesday for Japan to build “strong and constructive” relations with its neighbors as it welcomed Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s plan to express remorse in a special statement...

  • Posted January 7, 2015
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  [WSJ] When will S. Korea reach current US, Japan levels of wealth?

  South Koreans may attain the same level of wealth as Americans and Japanese currently enjoy in a decade, according to a Seoul-based think tank. In a new report, the Hyundai Research Institute says...

  • Posted January 5, 2015
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  Japan’s leader says he will express remorse for World War II

  TOKYO (AP) — In a year that marks the 70th anniversary of World War II’s end, a question weighs on the minds of policymakers in Asia and as far away as Washington, D.C.: What will Japanese Prime...

  • Posted January 5, 2015
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  ‘Interview’ ordeal at Sony just its latest crisis

  TOKYO (AP) — How do you say “damage control” in Japanese? Sony Corp. is sealed within a hermetic cone of silence as executives try to prevent the slow motion train wreck at Sony Pictures from damaging the...

  • Posted December 19, 2014
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  Girls’ Generation’s first concert as octet sells out 50,000 seats

  K-pop group Girls’ Generation performed their first concert with only eight members since the controversial departure of Jessica on Tuesday in Japan. This was also the first time they performed at the Tokyo Dome, which is considered one...

  • Posted December 10, 2014
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