Japanese War Dead

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  Japan PM Shinzo Abe First Foreign Leader To Visit Rodrigo Duterte's Philippines

  Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived in the Philippines on Thursday, becoming the first foreign leader to visit since President Rodrigo Duterte took office last year and launched his deadly war on crime.

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  In Pearl Harbor Visit, Shinzo Abe Pledges Japan Will Never Wage War Again

  Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe joined U.S. President Barack Obama for a symbolic joint visit to Pearl Harbor on Tuesday, commemorating World War Two dead and pledging that Japan would never wage war again.

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  Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Won't Apologise At Pearl Harbor: Government

  Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will honour war dead but won't apologise when he becomes the first Japanese leader to visit Pearl Harbor this month, a top government spokesman said Tuesday.

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  Japan Lawmakers' Group Visits Yasukuni Shrine For War Dead

  Dozens of Japanese members of parliament visited Yasukuni Shrine for war dead on Tuesday to mark an autumn festival at the shrine, seen in China and the two Koreas as a symbol of Japan's past militarism.

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  Japan Emperor Akihito Honors Japanese War Dead In Philippines

  With a mournful bow, Emperor Akihito has paid his respects at a hilltop war memorial near Manila to the largest number of Japanese invasion troops who died outside their homeland in World War II.

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  Japanese PM Shinzo Abe Makes Ritual Offering at Yasukuni Shrine

  Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent a ritual offering on Tuesday to a controversial Tokyo shrine for war dead, a senior spokesman said, a day before he hopes to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of a leaders' summit in Jakarta.

• Japan Minister Visits War Dead Shrine Day After Shinzo Abe Sends Offering

  A Japanese cabinet member visited a shrine for war dead on Saturday a day after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe prompted angry responses from China and South Korea by sending a ritual offering there.

• Japan PM Shinzo Abe Sends Offering to Yasukuni Shrine for War Dead

  Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent a ritual offering to Tokyo's controversial Yasukuni Shrine on Friday, a move that might complicate his push for a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping to improve frayed ties between the world's second and third-biggest economies.

• Japanese Ministers Visit War Dead Shrine on Anniversary of World War II Defeat

  Japanese cabinet ministers paid their respects at a Tokyo shrine seen as a symbol of past militarism on Friday and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe also sent an offering, moves likely to anger Asian neighbours and put at risk attempts to improve regional ties.

• China media condemns Japan PM for paying homage to "devils"

  Chinese newspapers denounced Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday, describing his visit to the Yasukuni Shrine for Japan's war dead as paying homage to "devils" and warning that China could crush "provocative militarism".

• Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits shrine for war dead; China, South Korea angered

  Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited a shrine on Thursday that is seen by critics as a symbol of Tokyo's wartime aggression, infuriating China and South Korea.

• Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits Yasukuni Shrine for war dead

  Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited Tokyo's controversial Yasukuni Shrine for war dead on Thursday, a move likely to anger Asian neighbours China and South Korea.

• Pearl Harbor dead remembered on 71st anniversary

  More than 2,000 people are gathering at Pearl Harbor on Friday to mark the 71st anniversary of the Japanese attack that killed thousands of people and launched the United States into World War II.