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HISTORY 3

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JAPAN / History / Regional Voices: Hiroshima
Sep 20, 2019
Artist shines a spotlight on all-female theater group in postwar Hiroshima Prefecture
During the post-World War II recovery period the city of Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, was home to an all-women's theater group.
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JAPAN / Politics
Sep 15, 2019
South Korea to exclude Japan from trade whitelist this week, report says
South Korea will probably announce its decision to officially exclude Japan from its whitelist of trusted export destinations as early as this week, the Yonhap news agency reported Sunday.
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WORLD / Politics
Sep 6, 2019
Robert Mugabe, Rhodesian liberator turned Zimbabwean oppressor, dies at 95
Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe was feted as an African liberation hero and champion of racial reconciliation when he first came to power in a nation divided by nearly a century of white colonial rule.
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JAPAN
Sep 4, 2019
Fixing wartime labor issue is priority for Japan and South Korea, says Abe
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Tuesday that settling the issue of wartime labor is currently a top priority for Japan and South Korea.
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JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 3, 2019
Letter threatening to hunt Koreans sent to South Korean Embassy in Japan
A letter threatening to hunt Koreans and containing what appeared to be a bullet has been sent to the South Korean Embassy in Japan, police said Tuesday, amid worsening ties between the Asian neighbors
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BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 1, 2019
South Korea's export slump extends to ninth month amid escalating feud with Japan
South Korea's exports extended their slump in August as an escalating feud with Japan adds to uncertainties for the economy already elevated amid the U.S.-China trade war.
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JAPAN / Politics
Aug 26, 2019
State Department spokeswoman says Seoul's scrapping of intel pact with Japan threatens U.S. troops
In a little-noticed tweet Sunday, a U.S. State Department spokeswoman delivered an unusually blunt criticism of South Korea's decision to pull out of an intelligence-sharing pact with Japan, saying that the move endangers American troops.
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JAPAN / Politics
Aug 25, 2019
Japan calls South Korea's Takeshima military exercises 'unacceptable' as ties continue to sour
Tokyo, calling the drills “unacceptable,” makes a protest about South Korean military exercises Seoul says are intended to “defend” a cluster of rocky islands in the Sea of Japan.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Aug 16, 2019
Samoan diaspora ink bonds with ancestors and motherland
Oliver Fagalilo takes a labored breath and tenses his body before a sharp steel comb, dipped in ink, is driven into his skin.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Aug 16, 2019
Young Maori women on frontline of New Zealand's fight for indigenous rights
Five years ago, law graduate Pania Newton and her cousins got together around a kitchen table and agreed to do everything in their power to prevent a housing development on a south Auckland site that is considered sacred by local Maori.
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JAPAN / Politics
Aug 11, 2019
In generational shift, Japan stands firm in feud with South Korea
When Yohei Kono made a landmark 1993 apology to the wartime "comfort women," the chief Cabinet secretary was speaking for a moderate conservative mainstream seeking to reconcile with its Asian neighbors.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Aug 11, 2019
Via language, song and nature, young Taiwanese reconnecting with indigenous roots
The Truku elders of Taiwan still dream about their mountain home four decades after bulldozers tore it down — a classic symptom of trauma as community members struggle to accept their loss.

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Dul Saroth (left) and Soeum Samrach, deminers with the Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority, practice using the Advanced Landmine Imaging System in Cambodia’s Siem Reap province in August.
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