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Rare footage shows Korean 'comfort women' from World War Two

The Seoul government has released rare video footage of Korean women forced to work in Japanese military brothels during World War Two, the first time moving images have been shown of the "comfort women".

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Rare footage shows Korean 'comfort women' from World War Two

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TWICE's Japanese debut album tops Oricon chart

K-pop girl group TWICE's Japanese debut album has topped the country's key music sales chart, according to its agency Monday.

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TWICE's Japanese debut album tops Oricon chart

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Japan can't buy pride by fabricating its history of war crimes

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China-Japan ties may see Silk Road lift

The Belt and Road Initiative can become an "experimental field" for China and Japan to achieve mutually beneficial cooperation and common development, President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday at a meeting in Beijing with a representative of the Japanese government.

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Japanese gov't seeks cooperation with S. Korea's new president

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday said he hopes to cooperate with South Korea's new president Moon Jae-in in dealing with issues pertaining to tension on the Korean Peninsula.

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Japanese movie players take bigger role in S. Korean cinema

Fascinated by South Korean cinema, which has boomed this century, Japanese actors and cineastes have crossed the sea to work in their neighboring country’s film industry.

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Japanese Emperor Akihito meets children of Tokyo’s second world war soldiers during Vietnam visit

Japan’s royal couple on Thursday listened to the tearful stories of Vietnamese children who were abandoned by their Japanese soldier fathers after the second world war, a symbolic meeting in Hanoi aimed at healing wounds between the former war foes.

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Logo chosen for promotion of Japanese culture before Olympics

With an eye on spreading the charms of Japanese culture ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, the government has unveiled a logo to be displayed by those involved in the pursuit.

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The Japanese and love — more complicated than you think

At 13 years old I received my first ラブレター (rabu retā, love letter) stashed in my personal 下駄箱 (getabako, shoe box) at my 中学校 (chūgakkō, junior high school).

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S. Korean sports committee asks Japan to take measures on history-distorting books in hotels

​South Korea's sports committee has asked its Japanese counterpart to take measures on books placed in guestrooms of a right-wing Japanese hotel chain that denies Japan's wartime crimes.

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Japanese hotel chain's remark on books stirs outrage

Chinese are outraged over a remark by a Japanese hotel chain that has refused to withdraw books from its guest rooms in Japan that deny the Nanjing Massacre in China during World War II.

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S. Koreans condemn right-wing Japanese hotel distorting wartime history

​South Korean people condemn a right-wing Japanese hotel chain, which caused uproar by placing books distorting the Imperial Japan's wartime history in guestrooms of its 400-plus hotels.

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Japanese minister slams South Korean group’s plan to erect ‘comfort women’ statue on disputed isles

Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida described as “unacceptable” on Tuesday a plan by a group of South Korean local assembly members to erect a “comfort women” memorial statue on an uninhabited pair of islets in the Sea of Japan (East Sea) controlled by South Korea but claimed by Japan.

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Aging Filipino "comfort women" protest Japanese PM's visit

Aging Filipino "comfort women" staged a protest on Thursday in front of the Japanese Embassy in Manila ahead of the visit by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to the country.

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China terms Tokyo chief's visit to war shrine "ironic"

Beijing has denounced as "greatly ironic" the Japanese defense chief's visit to the Yasukuni Shrine, which came shortly after she returned from accompanying Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on his visit to Pearl Harbor.