Japanese Expansion
Between 1895 and 1945, Japan built a colonial empire in East Asia and the South Pacific, exerted growing political and economic influence over areas of Asia beyond the borders of it...
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The Museum of East Asian Art in Bath in the southwest of England
joined Japan in the celebration Friday of a Japanese national
holiday, Greenery Day, with a flower-themed origami-making sessi...
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Oslo (dpa) - At least six people were feared dead Thursday in more
confrontations in Myanmar between the military and demonstrators, the
Oslo-based opposition radio station ...
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Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, who filed his
candidacy for Sunday's upper house election in Japan while under
house arrest in Chile, is unlikely to win a s...
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The Supreme Court sent Wednesday to its grand bench two lawsuits
challenging the Nationality Law that denies Japanese nationality to
children of Japanese and foreign parentage born out of wed...
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The families of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea
decades ago and their supporters welcomed the government's decision
Tuesday to extend Japan's sanctions against North Korea for anot...
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Japan urged North Korea Friday through embassy channels to
return two children abducted more than three decades ago by a group
of North Korean agents and hand over a woman who led the group, ...
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Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, who filed his
candidacy for Sunday's upper house election in Japan while under
house arrest in Chile, has conceded defeat in the election.
''I c...
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Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura renewed calls on
North Korea to take ''sincere and prompt'' actions toward resolving
the issue of Pyongyang's abductions of Japanese nationals in re...
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Family members of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea and
their supporters headed to the United States on Sunday to press top
U.S. officials not to remove North Korea from the U.S. lis...
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Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda's Cabinet on Tuesday approved the
extension of Japan's sanctions on North Korea fo...
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Japanese Expansion
British museum celebrates Japanese national holiday
