Novelist suggests PM Abe include "invasion" in war statement

Novelist Jiro Asada (2nd from L) speaks at a study meeting of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's young politicians in the National Diet Building in Tokyo on May 25, 2015, saying Prime Minister Shinzo Abe should include the word "invasion" in his statement this summer for the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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