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Letters: Japan's view of World War II
Re "Revisionism Tokyo-style," Opinion, Jan. 18 Postwar Japan is often juxtaposed with Germany, and for good reason. Tuesday is the 50th anniversary of the Elysee Treaty between France and Germany, which sealed their reconciliation. Meanwhile, Japanese...Tags: Germany, Angela Merkel, World War II (1939-1945), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Japan
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China's me-first foreign policy
China's more assertive foreign policy over the last two years has played a key role in getting two arch-conservatives — Japan's Shinzo Abe and South Korea's Park Geun-hye — elected to lead their respective countries. Some Chinese observers...
Tags: Beijing (China), Park Geun-hye, Politics, Seoul (South Korea), South Korea
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Revisionism Tokyo-style
This month 75 years ago, the people of Nanking, China's ancient capital city, were in the midst of one of the worst atrocities in history, the infamous Rape of Nanking. The truth of what actually happened is at the center of a bitter dispute between China...
Tags: Politics, Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941), Tokyo (Japan), China, Wars and Interventions
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A militarized Japan?
Japan's new prime minister, Shinzo Abe, has announced plans to revise his country's famous pacifist constitutional provision, Article 9, which renounces "war as a sovereign right of the nation." On the surface, Abe's proposal may seem merely symbolic,...
Tags: National Government, Politics, Human Rights, Freedom of the Press, Crime, Law and Justice
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China-Japan tension over disputed islands takes to the sky
BEIJING -- Chinese and Japanese fighter planes tailed each other over a disputed cluster of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea, raising alarm that a miscalculation could set off an armed confrontation. Chinese military authorities ordered two J-...
Tags: Beijing (China), Military Equipment, Military Aircraft, China, Aerospace Manufacturing
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Japan sends envoy to South Korea in bid to dial down tensions
In the wake of elections that put hawkish leaders in power, Japan has reached out to South Korea in a bid to dial down tensions. Shinzo Abe, the new prime minister of Japan, sent an envoy to South Korea to meet Friday with Park Geun-hye, who was...
Tags: Park Geun-hye, South Korea, Japan
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Japan elections revive questions about peaceful constitution
Elections on Sunday are expected to return former Japanese leader Shinzo Abe to power, a hawk by the standards of restrained Japan. The nation's apparent rightward swing has spurred concerns that a victorious Abe might attempt one of his most...
Tags: National Government, Politics, Teaching and Learning, Central Intelligence Agency, China
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Japan conservatives win landslide election victory
TOKYO -- The conservative party that dominated post-war Japan is back in power after a three-year absence, in a landslide election victory Sunday that will result in hawkish Shinzo Abe returning as prime minister. Abe, 58, who served in the post once...
Tags: Politics, Tokyo (Japan), China, Parties and Movements, World War II (1939-1945)
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Japan scrambles jets in dispute with China over islands
BEIJING -- Japan scrambled F-15 fighter jets Thursday in response to a Chinese surveillance plane that flew over contested islands in the East China Sea, ratcheting up a dispute that is becoming increasingly worrisome to the international community....
Tags: Nanjing (China), Xi Jinping, Tokyo (Japan), China, Communist Party of China
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East Asian elections over but territorial disputes still simmer
Muscle-flexing over the archipelago of disputed islands in East Asian seas featured prominently in the political campaigns that have brought forth new leaders for China, Japan and South Korea. But don’t expect an end to the posturing and...
Tags: Park Geun-hye, Aquaculture, Politics, Petroleum Industry, Xi Jinping
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Tokyo governor resigns to form new party, run for parliament
World NowShintaro Ishihara, the strident governor of Tokyo who helped touch off a major dispute between China and Japan over some uninhabited islets near Taiwan, announced that he was quitting his post and forming a new political party.... -
Shinzo Abe, hawkish former Japanese leader, eyes return to power
World NowFormer Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was elected as head of the Liberal Democratic Party, a move that could pave the way for the hawkish politician to return as the nation's leader if elections are called this fall....
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