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- International protestors denounce Koizumi shrine visit
- After Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi went ahead with his planned visit to Yasukuni Shrine on the morning of August 15, a day which commemorates independence from Japa...
- Aug.16,2006 11:32 KST
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- [Editorial] Is Koizumi a kamikaze?
- Yesterday was a sad and lamentable day. August 15 should have been a day for East Asia to reflect on the wrongs of the past and build mutual trust, but it was turned into a day ...
- Aug.16,2006 11:24 KST
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- Roh urges Japan to sincerely repent for past wrongdoings
- South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun on Tuesday called on Japanese political leaders to repent for their country's past wrongdoings and end visits to the controversial Yasukuni S...
- Aug.15,2006 13:42 KST
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- [Column] Japan’s turn to the right
- By Selig S. Harrison, Asia Director, Center for International Policy
Is Japan moving toward right-wing nationalism and an inevitable growth of tensions with China and the Kor...
- Aug.15,2006 13:21 KST
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- My dream is to attend high school: Mongolian immigrant
- Ilhim Bayar, 16, will be admitted to his third year at Kwangjang Middle School in Seoul next month. In Mongolia, he would have been in his second year in high school, but here, ...
- Aug.15,2006 11:15 KST
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- Conglomerates' third generation rolling in stock options
- Though they are too young to be making a contribution to the economy, the third-generation offspring of South Korea’s family-owned industrial conglomerates, or chaebol, are flus...
- Aug.15,2006 10:56 KST
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- Japanese man wants father’s name removed from Yasukuni
- The father of Kinjo Minoru, a 67-year-old sculptor from Okinawa, Japan, volunteered for the Japanese military at the age of 19, during the height of the Pacific War. Three years...
- Aug.15,2006 10:40 KST
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- Controversy enshrined
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Some 800 protesters from Korea, Japan, and Taiwan hold a candlelight vigil against the Yasukuni Shrine and Japanese prime minister Junichiro Koizumi’s repeated visits to it....
- Aug.15,2006 09:57 KST
