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But the prime minister also said that Japan must not let its future generations “be predestined to apologize”.

Abe, the grandson of a wartime cabinet minister, himself did not visit the shrine, which honours 14 Japanese leaders convicted as war criminals by an Allied tribunal, along with millions of war dead.

The commentary said descendants of any country in the world must inherit their predecessors’ past attainments along with responsibilities brought by their forebears’ prior crimes. At the last two ceremonies, he also did not pledge that Japan would never go to war....

Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe had the opportunity to continue along the same path as his predecessor, Tomiichi Murayama and apologize for Japan’s past aggression, however, those that had waited with bated breath for Abe’s statement on Friday, a day before the...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday expressed “profound grief” for those who suffered at the hands of the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II, but stopped short of issuing a fresh apology of his own.

Around 1 000 protesters had gathered at the mission to push for reparations ahead of Saturday’s 70th anniversary of the end of Japan’s 1910-45 colonial rule over the Korean peninsula.

United States Ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert faced a second scare of his relatively short spell in Seoul, it emerged Friday, as police announced the arrest of a local man for threatening to kill the envoy.