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Japan's Abe says "restoration of sovereignty day" signals hope
TOKYO (Reuters) - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called on Sunday for a renewal of a "sense of hope and determination" in marking for the first time the restoration of Japan's post-war sovereignty, part of a drive to repair what conservatives consider dented national pride. Abe, who is riding a wave of popularity after being swept back into office in a landslide election last December, wants to revise the post-war, U.S.-drafted pacifist constitution and rewrite Japan's wartime history with a less apologetic tone. #facebook #India #Bangladesh #Brazil #Technology #Russia #United Kingdom #Latin America #Entertainment #japanese #lifestyle
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Japan PM Abe's war shrine offering likely to infuriate China
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made a ritual offering of a pine tree to a shrine seen as a symbol of Japan's former militarism on Sunday, a gesture likely to upset Asian victims of Japan's war-time aggression, including China and South Korea. Abe, an outspoken nationalist, offered the tree to the Yasukuni Shrine, where 14 Japanese leaders convicted as war criminals by an Allied tribunal are honoured along with other war dead #Politics #United States #Brazil #Technology #Arabic #NewsTracker #Italy #North Korea #Argentina #Latin America #japanese #lifestyle
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Chinese fishing boat detained in Japan: Xinhua
BEIJING (Reuters) - Japan's coastguard detained a Chinese fishing boat within Japanese waters on Sunday evening, China's Xinhua news agency said, citing the Chinese consulate general in Fukuoka, a city in southwestern Japan. The captain of the boat, registered in the southeastern Chinese province of Fujian, and two crew members have been brought to the southern Japanese city of Kagoshima for questioning, Xinhua said. It said the captain had admitted he was in Japanese waters #Politics #United States #China #Business #Brazil #NewsTracker #Russia #United Kingdom #Entertainment #japanese #chinese #lifestyle
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CNBCKorea Goes After Chinese Tourists as Yen Falls
WestnEast, a traditional Korean pancake house in the hip shopping area of Garosugil in Seoul, used to be big hit with Japanese tourists when it first opened four years ago, being featured in a famous Japanese travel magazine. But now the café is feeling #Seoul #CNBC #Shinzo Abe
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Al JazeeraUS slams Japanese mayor's sex-slave comments
The United States condemned as "outrageous and offensive" comments by the mayor of the Japanese city of Osaka who said this week that Japan's military brothels during World War Two were "necessary" to provide respite for soldiers. The remarks by Osaka Ma #China #US State Department #Seoul
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Cinema BlendEven Japanese Gamers Hate Disc-Locked Content
Language barriers, cultural gaps, gender role differences...those are a few things that separate us from our Japanese gaming brethren (and sisters). However, there's one thing that ties us all together in the gaming community: our mutual dislike of disc- #Toshi (musician) #Europe #North America