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(REUTERS) Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday he wants to send a message to the world during his visit to Pearl Harbor that Japan will never repeat the atrocities of past wars. “The alliance between Japan and the United States is one with hope in dealing with various problems in the world,” Abe said in a speech to the Japanese business lobby Keidanren. “I hope this visit will be a historical one with […]
VIENTIANE, Laos (AFP) — US president Barack Obama on Wednesday met a survivor maimed by American bombs covertly dropped on Laos decades ago after pledging to help clean up a country he said was still living in the shadow of war. A day after announcing $90 million to survey and remove unexploded ordinance, Obama visited a US-backed NGO which helps provide prosthetics to the tens of thousands maimed by US munitions. Between 1964 and 1973 […]
JUNE 4 (Reuters) — Philippines President Benigno Aquino addressed Japanese parliament on Wednesday (June 3), praising Japan’s post-war efforts as having gone beyond healing the wounds of World War Two, after earlier comparing China with Nazi Germany. “For your part, you have gone beyond fulfilling obligation to heal the wounds of the past, and acted with truly altruistic intentions. You rebuilt not only yourself but those of us who’ve been left further behind had it […]
