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Reports: Kamala Harris to attend funeral of Japan’s former PM Shinzo Abe
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Japan ministers visit war shrine as South Korea calls for end to historical tensions
Japan PM Fumio Kishida sends offering but stays away from Yasukuni, which honours dead including class-A war criminals ... ( read original story ...)
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Step inside Tokyo’s ‘Stranger Things’ cafe
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Tokyo reports 23,135 new cases of coronavirus on Monday
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Japan observes 77th anniversary of World War II
Japan on Monday marked 77 years since the country's surrender during World War II, but the country's prime minister stopped short of apologizing for his country's role in further igniting the conflict ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo holds ceremony marking 77 years since end of World War II
People in Japan are marking 77 years since the end of World War Two. On August 15, 1945, people gathered around their radios to hear a message from the Emperor. He announced that Japan had surrendered ... ( read original story ...)
Japanese politicians’ worship of Yasukuni Shrine angers neighboring countries; reflects Tokyo’s right-leaning tendency, more twisted historical view
Japanese politicians' worship of the controversial Yasukuni Shrine on the 77th anniversary of Japan's unconditional surrender in World War II has sent waves of anger across neighboring countries, ... ( read original story ...)
Girls’ Generation ‘Forever 1’ MV director apologizes for Tokyo DisneySea plagiarism accusations
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Japan PM vows no more war; ministers visit shrine to war dead
Prime Minster Fumio Kishida vowed on the anniversary of Japan's World War Two surrender on Monday that his country would never again wage war, as members of his cabinet visited a shrine that honours ... ( read original story ...)
77th anniversary of the end of World War II in Tokyo
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Watch: This Tokyo festival had people doing the Bon Odori dance to Bon Jovi and Abba
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Japan marks WWII’s end, Kishida doesn’t mention aggression
Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida renewed Japan's no-war pledge at a somber ceremony Monday as his country marked the 77th anniversary of its World War II defeat, but he did not mention Japanese ... ( read original story ...)