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...strained relations with its Asian neighbors, which still burn with resentment over the wartime suffering inflicted on them by the Imperial Japanese Army. Their anger tends to be ignored by Tokyo, which seems to want to discuss the "comfort women" issue only with Washington. In fact, when Prime Minister Shinzo Abe recently uttered the closest thing he's said to an apology on the issue, it was addressed to President George W. Bush at an April summit in Washington, rather than directly to the victims. Tokyo's obsession with Washington's opinion is generally only equalled by its obliviousness towards...
...child abuse and parental stress receive more sympathetic attention in the Japanese media, there's hope that the country may be able halt this growing social rot. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has run on a platform of restoring Japan's traditional values - the right kind of rhetoric if he can actually help reknit Japan's broken families. Saimura notes that the health ministry just began funding a new service that will dispatch volunteers to visit the homes of new parents and provide support if they're struggling. The program is tragically too late for some children, but it sure beats...
Aides to Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe have a small request for the Washington press corps on his first official visit to the U.S. this Thursday and Friday: Don't mention the war - or more specifically, Abe's stance on the tens of thousands of women in occupied countries forced to serve as sex slaves to the Japanese military during World War II. Partly in response to a draft U.S. congressional resolution urging Tokyo to issue a full and clear apology to the "comfort women," Abe in March denied that the Japanese government had been directly involved in forcing...
...melted considerably, but the water remains cold.' WANG YI, China's ambassador to Japan, on relations between the two countries following talks between Premier Wen Jiabao and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo April 11 and 12. Wen's trip marked the first diplomatic visit to Japan by a Chinese leader in nearly seven years
...door for the normalization of Japanese forces, allowing greater participation in international peacekeeping operations, closer cooperation with the U.S., and perhaps the acquisition of offensive weapons such as cruise missiles. It would also fulfill a goal the LDP has held since it was established in 1955. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made constitutional amendment the cornerstone of his young administration, declaring that Japan must "slough off the postwar regime." That kind of talk sets off alarm bells for critics who view any easing of military limits as the beginning of a backslide into wartime aggression. (Former Singaporean leader Lee Kuan...