All posts tagged "Shinzo Abe"

  • Abe
    Abe offers no apology for wartime sexual slavery

    WASHINGTON/CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (Yonhap) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe offered no clear apology Monday for the country’s wartime sexual enslavement of Korean and other Asian women, sticking to a previous vague statement on the issue that has...

    • Posted April 28, 2015
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    Abe expected to mention sexual slavery issue during US trip: US lawmaker

    WASHINGTON, April 6 (Yonhap) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is expected to mention the issue of the country’s wartime sexual enslavement of women when he visits the United States later this month, a U.S. congressman said...

    • Posted April 7, 2015
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  • banabe
    UN chief urges S. Korea, Japan, China, to reconcile

    TOKYO (AP) — U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged the leaders of Japan, China and South Korea on Monday to work harder for reconciliation over their wartime past to ensure peace and stability in the region. In...

    • Posted March 16, 2015
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  • President Barack Obama watches as South Korean President Park Geun-hye, left, and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, leave their seats at the opposite ends of the table, Tuesday, March 25, 2014, during the start of their trilateral meeting at the US Ambassador's Residence in the Hague, Netherlands. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
    U.S. praises Japan over North Korea negotiations

    (Yonhap) — The United States said Thursday it believes Japan is handling bilateral negotiations with North Korea in a “transparent manner,” after Tokyo announced its decision to lift some of its sanctions on the communist nation. Japanese...

    • Posted July 4, 2014
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  • President Park Geun-hye and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shake hands during a trilateral summit with President Barack Obama at the U.S. embassy in The Hague. (Yonhap)
    Abe’s charm fails to win over Park

    By Kim Tae-gyu THE HAGUE ― Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s charm offensive obviously failed to win over President Park Geun-hye. In a trilateral summit, mediated by U.S. President Barack Obama, the two met for the first...

    • Posted March 26, 2014
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    Obstacles to Park-Abe summit abound

    By Kim Tae-gyu Prime Minister Shinzo Abe needs to do more to address sexual slavery of Korean women and other historical issues if he hopes to hold a summit with President Park Geun-hye, analysts said Monday. They...

    • Posted March 17, 2014
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  • Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se, left, and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry deliver remarks to the media in the Treaty Room of the U.S. State Department after their private meeting in Washington, Tuesday. (AFP-Yonhap)
    U.S. snubs S. Korea’s call on Abe

    By Chung Min-uck U.S. Secretary John Kerry ignored an invitation by South Korea to join in the condemnation of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit to Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine. Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se told a press conference...

    • Posted January 8, 2014
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