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View full sizeAssociated PressYoshiaki Kamagata, 86, a veteran of the Imperial Japanese army, wipes away sweat from his face, at Yasukuni Shrine during a ceremony marking the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II, in Tokyo, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2010. Japan’s new liberal prime minister shunned a visit to the shrine that has outraged Asian neighbors for honoring war criminals, setting his Cabinet apart from his predecessors, and instead apologized Sunday for the suffering World War II caused people of the region.
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Last week, he apologized to South Korea for Japan’s 1910-45 colonial rule. Imperialist Japan committed atrocities in Asia, including forcing Koreans to fight as front-line soldiers, work in slave-labor conditions and serve as prostitutes in military-run brothels.
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View full sizeAssociated Press, FileIn this Sunday, Sept. 2, 1945 picture, Japanese Foreign Minister Namoru Shigemitsu, center in top hat, leads the Japanese delegation aboard the USS Missouri battleship in Tokyo Bay for the signing ceremony for Japanese surrender in World War II.

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