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All posts tagged "World War II"

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  Over 120 historical errors regarding S. Korea found in Japan’s textbooks

  SEOUL (Yonhap) — A total of 126 mistakes about Korea have been found in Japan’s textbooks over the past five years, a lawmaker said Monday, showing another example of Japan’s continued attempts to distort history. “Japan distorted...

  • Posted October 5, 2015
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  Comfort women documentary to screen in Washington DC, Seoul on Liberation Day

  By Brian Han Christopher H.K. Lee’s latest documentary “The Last Tear” will be screened in Washington D.C. and Seoul on Aug. 15 marking the 70th anniversary of South Korea’s liberation from Japanese imperialism during World War II....

  • Posted August 14, 2015
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  Japanese leader Abe stops short of apology for World War II

  TOKYO (AP) — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe acknowledged Friday that Japan inflicted “immeasurable damage and suffering” on innocent people in World War II, but stopped short of offering his own apology and said future generations of Japanese...

  • Posted August 14, 2015
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  Ex-Japanese PM urges Tokyo to resolve sex slave issue

  SEOUL, May 20 (Yonhap) — Japan should move first to resolve the ongoing row with South Korea over the Japanese military’s sexual enslavement of Korean women during World War II, a former Japanese prime minister said Wednesday....

  • Posted May 20, 2015
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  [WaPo] 70 years later, a Korean ‘comfort woman’ demands apology from Japan

  Seated on a sofa in an embroidered silk costume, Yong Soo Lee is a study in grim dignity. She is 86 now, and the story of her long-ago wartime ordeal emerges slowly and hesitantly...

  • Posted April 23, 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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  Korea raises sex slavery issue at UN

  By Kang Seung-woo Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se urged Japan, Wednesday, to take responsibility for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II and make sincere efforts to resolve the matter. In a keynote speech to...

  • Posted March 5, 2014
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