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Japanese Veteran Visits China To Apologize - Harbin

Hideo Shimizu (L) visits the Exhibition Hall of Evidences of Crime Committed by Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, August 13, 2024. After a 79-year hiatus, Hideo Shimizu, a former member of Unit 731, the notorious Japanese germ-warfare detachment during World War II, returned to China to acknowledge the atrocities committed by the invading Japanese forces and to offer sincere repentance and apologies to the victims. Photo by Wang Jianwei/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Japanese Veteran Visits China To Apologize - Harbin

Hideo Shimizu prays in front of the list of victims at the Exhibition Hall of Evidences of Crime Committed by Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Aug. 13, 2024. After a 79-year hiatus, Hideo Shimizu, a former member of Unit 731, the notorious Japanese germ-warfare detachment during World War II, returned to China to acknowledge the atrocities committed by the invading Japanese forces and to offer sincere repentance and apologies to the victims. Photo by Xinhua/Wang Jianwei/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Japanese Veteran Visits China To Apologize - Harbin

Hideo Shimizu (2nd L, front) visits the Exhibition Hall of Evidences of Crime Committed by Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Aug. 13, 2024. After a 79-year hiatus, Hideo Shimizu, a former member of Unit 731, the notorious Japanese germ-warfare detachment during World War II, returned to China to acknowledge the atrocities committed by the invading Japanese forces and to offer sincere repentance and apologies to the victims. Photo by Xinhua/Wang Jianwei/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Japanese Veteran Visits China To Apologize - Harbin

Hideo Shimizu visits the Exhibition Hall of Evidences of Crime Committed by Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Aug. 13, 2024. After a 79-year hiatus, Hideo Shimizu, a former member of Unit 731, the notorious Japanese germ-warfare detachment during World War II, returned to China to acknowledge the atrocities committed by the invading Japanese forces and to offer sincere repentance and apologies to the victims. Photo by Xinhua/Zhang Tao/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Japanese Veteran Visits China To Apologize - Harbin

Hideo Shimizu visits the Exhibition Hall of Evidences of Crime Committed by Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Aug. 13, 2024. After a 79-year hiatus, Hideo Shimizu, a former member of Unit 731, the notorious Japanese germ-warfare detachment during World War II, returned to China to acknowledge the atrocities committed by the invading Japanese forces and to offer sincere repentance and apologies to the victims. Photo by Xinhua/Zhang Tao/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Japanese Veteran Visits China To Apologize - Harbin

Hideo Shimizu (2nd R) visits the Exhibition Hall of Evidences of Crime Committed by Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Aug. 13, 2024. After a 79-year hiatus, Hideo Shimizu, a former member of Unit 731, the notorious Japanese germ-warfare detachment during World War II, returned to China to acknowledge the atrocities committed by the invading Japanese forces and to offer sincere repentance and apologies to the victims. Photo by Xinhua/Wang Jianwei/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Japanese Veteran Visits China To Apologize - Harbin

Hideo Shimizu visits the Exhibition Hall of Evidences of Crime Committed by Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Aug. 13, 2024. After a 79-year hiatus, Hideo Shimizu, a former member of Unit 731, the notorious Japanese germ-warfare detachment during World War II, returned to China to acknowledge the atrocities committed by the invading Japanese forces and to offer sincere repentance and apologies to the victims. Photo by Xinhua/Zhang Tao/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Japanese Veteran Visits China To Apologize - Harbin

Hideo Shimizu prays in front of the list of victims at the Exhibition Hall of Evidences of Crime Committed by Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Aug. 13, 2024. After a 79-year hiatus, Hideo Shimizu, a former member of Unit 731, the notorious Japanese germ-warfare detachment during World War II, returned to China to acknowledge the atrocities committed by the invading Japanese forces and to offer sincere repentance and apologies to the victims. Photo by Xinhua/Zhang Tao/ABACAPRESS.COM

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CHINA-NINGXIA-YINCHUAN-EXPLOSION-PRESS CONFERENCE (CN)

(230623) -- YINCHUAN, June 23, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A press conference on a deadly restaurant explosion is held in Yinchuan, capital of northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, on June 22, 2023. Local officials bowed to express deep condolences to the victims of a deadly restaurant explosion in Yinchuan, the capital of northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, at a press conference held on Thursday night. Tao Shaohua, mayor of Yinchuan, also expressed sympathy to the families of the victims and the injured, and extended deep apologies to the people of Yinchuan. (Xinhua/Yang Zhisen)

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Apartment building collapses in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Gen. Choe Pu Il, the North Korean minister of people's security, apologies to bereaved families and residents in Pyongyang on May 17, 2014, after an apartment building under construction collapsed May 13 and claimed the lives of an unspecified number of people. The country's state media reported the accident on May 18.

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NYT ad urges Japan to apologize over "comfort women"

NEW YORK, United States - Photo shows a full-page ad urging the Japanese government to offer its "heartfelt apologies" to the women forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese military during World War II, published in The New York Times on May 29, 2012. The ad, by the entity "ForTheNextGeneration.com," said the Japanese government has not adequately apologized or provided compensation to the so-called comfort women.

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Toyota announces global recall of Prius, other hybrid models

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Co. President Akio Toyoda is seen during a press conference at the automaker's Tokyo office on Feb. 9, 2010. He offered apologies as he announced a global recall of about 400,000 of the automaker's four hybrid models including its best-selling Prius.

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Toyota announces global recall of Prius, other hybrid models

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Co. President Akio Toyoda is seen during a press conference at the automaker's Tokyo office on Feb. 9, 2010. He offered apologies as he announced a global recall of about 400,000 of the automaker's four hybrid models including its best-selling Prius.

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Toyota announces global recall of Prius, other hybrid models

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Co. President Akio Toyoda speaks at a press conference at the automaker's Tokyo office on Feb. 9, 2010. He offered apologies as he announced a global recall of about 400,000 of the automaker's four hybrid models including its best-selling Prius.

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Toyota announces global recall of Prius, other hybrid models

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Co. President Akio Toyoda is seen during a press conference at the automaker's Tokyo office on Feb. 9, 2010. He offered apologies as he announced a global recall of about 400,000 of the automaker's four hybrid models including its best-selling Prius.

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Toyota announces global recall of Prius, other hybrid models

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Co. President Akio Toyoda walks away after speaking at a press conference at the automaker's Tokyo office on Feb. 9, 2010. He offered apologies as he announced a global recall of about 400,000 of the automaker's four hybrid models including its best-selling Prius.

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American missionary travels to China after release by N. Korea

BEIJING, China - U.S. missionary Robert Park, who has been detained in North Korea since December, arrived at Beijing Capital International Airport from Pyongyang on Feb. 6, 2010, a day after North Korea said he would be released because he has reflected on his act and offered apologies.

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New JSA chief apologizes at outset of autumn sumo tournament

TOKYO, Japan - Flanked by sumo wresters, Japan Sumo Association Chairman Musashigawa apologies to fans from the sumo ring at the outset of the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo on Sept. 14. Musashigawa promised a strict new regimen for wrestlers in the wake of alleged drug use involving three Russian wrestlers.

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NHK chief apologies over insider stock trading by employees

TOKYO, Japan - NHK President Genichi Hashimoto (C) apologizes to Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Hiroya Masuda (R) during a meeting at the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry on Jan. 18 over allegations that three NHK employees -- two reporters and one director -- were involved in insider trading. Masuda ordered NHK to check whether other NHK employees in news sections are involved in illegal stock trading.

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Fukuda offers apologies to plaintiffs in hepatitis C case

TOKYO, Japan - Two combined photos shows Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda (R) offering apologies to representatives (L) of the plaintiffs, who filed damages lawsuits against the state and drug makers over their contraction of hepatitis C through tainted blood products.

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Goodwill head apologizes for move seen as attempt to evade order

TOKYO, Japan - Koichi Higuchi (L), president of Comsn Inc., and Masahiro Origuchi (C), chairman of Goodwill Group Inc., bow in apology during a press conference in Tokyo on June 8. Ogiguchi offered his apologies for a move that many saw as an attempt to circumvent a government order effectively directing Comsn Inc., a Goodwill unit running the nation's largest nursing care service, to discontinue operations.

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Goodwill head apologizes for move seen as attempt to evade order

TOKYO, Japan - Masahiro Origuchi (R), chairman of Goodwill Group Inc., and Koichi Higuchi, president of Comsn Inc., hold a news conference in Tokyo on June 8. Ogiguchi offered his apologies for a move that many saw as an attempt to circumvent a government order effectively directing Comsn Inc., a Goodwill unit running the nation's largest nursing care service, to discontinue operations.

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Kin mark 2nd anniversary of JR West train disaster

AMAGASAKI, Japan - Masao Yamazaki, president of West Japan Railway Co., delivers his apologies during a ceremony at the Amagasaki Cultural Center in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, on April 24 to mark the second anniversary of the fatal derailment accident in Amagasaki which killed 107 people and injured 562 others. (Pool photo)

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Commander apologizes for fire at U.S. Navy's ammunition depot

SASEBO, Japan - Capt. Tilghman Payne (R), commander at the Fleet Activities Sasebo naval base, meets with Sasebo Mayor Akira Mitsutake at the city hall on Oct. 22 to convey his apologies for worrying city residents about the fire that occurred at a woodworking shop at the Maehata ammunition depot the previous day.

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Ex-sex slaves from Taiwan seek apology, compensation from Japan

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Six women in Taiwan who were forced to serve as ''comfort women'' for the Japanese military during World War II lodge a protest on Aug. 15 in Taipei, seeking apologies and compensation from the Japanese government.

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(1)Chinese group seeks apology, compensation for forced labor

NAGASAKI, Japan - A group of 10 Chinese former forced laborers and relatives of dead laborers walk to the Nagasaki District Court in Nagasaki on Nov. 28 to file a lawsuit against Japan, Nagasaki prefectural government and two Mitsubishi group firms. They are seeking apologies from the Japanese government and others 20 million yen in compensation for the hardships they sustained when forced to work at Japanese coal mines during World War II.

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Tanaka appears before committee

TOKYO, Japan - Embattled Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka is in talks with her aides June 27 before taking the rostrum at the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee to offer her apologies for trying to restrict Diet questioning by Muneo Suzuki (R), her political foe.

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Tanaka offers apologies

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka offers her apologies at a session of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee over trying to restrict Diet questioning by a political foe. Later the chairman of the committee, Ryuichi Doi, criticized Tanaka for what he called her insincere apologies.

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Ehime Maru victims' relatives thank Hawaiians for kindness

HONOLULU, United States - Photo shows a copy of letters by relatives of the nine Japanese lost at sea in the Feb. 9 sinking of a Japanese fisheries training ship, in which they express their gratitude for Hawaiians' kindness and consideration and apologies for any offense they may have caused in their grief. The letter, translated by the Japanese Consulate General in Honolulu, will be delivered to the Hawaii governor.

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U.S. envoy apologizes for loss of Ehime Maru

TOKYO, Japan - Adm. William Fallon, special envoy from Washington, speaks upon arriving at Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo on Feb. 27. He conveyed U.S. apologies to Japan over the Feb. 9 sinking of the Ehime Maru, a Japanese high school fisheries training ship, by the U.S. nuclear submarine Greeneville off Hawaii. Fallon, vice chief of operations in the U.S. Navy, will meet Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori to brief him on progress in the investigation into the sub-ship collision.

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Mori grilled in Diet over 'divine nation' remarks

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori is pictured during a Diet (parliament) debate May 17 as he comes under criticism for his remarks that Japan is a divine country with the emperor at its center. ''If there were any misunderstandings, I feel sorry for them and offer my apologies,'' Mori said at a plenary session of the House of Councillors.

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Fukuda offers apologies to plaintiffs in hepatitis C case

TOKYO, Japan - Two combined photos shows Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda (R) offering apologies to representatives (L) of the plaintiffs, who filed damages lawsuits against the state and drug makers over their contraction of hepatitis C through tainted blood products. (Kyodo)

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New JSA chief apologizes at outset of autumn sumo tournament

TOKYO, Japan - Flanked by sumo wresters, Japan Sumo Association Chairman Musashigawa apologies to fans from the sumo ring at the outset of the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo on Sept. 14. Musashigawa promised a strict new regimen for wrestlers in the wake of alleged drug use involving three Russian wrestlers. (Kyodo)

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Tanaka offers apologies

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka offers her apologies at a session of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee over trying to restrict Diet questioning by a political foe. Later the chairman of the committee, Ryuichi Doi, criticized Tanaka for what he called her insincere apologies.

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Mori grilled in Diet over 'divine nation' remarks

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori is pictured during a Diet (parliament) debate May 17 as he comes under criticism for his remarks that Japan is a divine country with the emperor at its center. ''If there were any misunderstandings, I feel sorry for them and offer my apologies,'' Mori said at a plenary session of the House of Councillors.

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Public hospital in Chiba removes patient's breast by mistake

Matsuo Nagata (R), head of the Chiba Cancer Center, at a press conference on Dec. 25, 2015, in Chiba, near Tokyo, said the public hospital removed the right breast of a female patient in her 30s by mistake based on data from a patient with more aggressive breast cancer. "We wish to offer our deep apologies to the patient and her family for causing such an accident," Nagata said. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Abe expresses Japan's deep remorse, apology in WWII statement

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe looks at a teleprompter as he reads out his statement in Tokyo on Aug. 14, 2015, to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. The statement upheld previous Japanese government apologies, notably a 1995 landmark statement issued by Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama on the 50th anniversary of the end of the war. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Abe issues closely watched WWII anniv. statement

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet approves his statement at an extraordinary meeting in Tokyo on Aug. 14, 2015, to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. The statement referred to past prime ministers' apologies over Japan's wartime acts. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Abe issues WWII anniv. statement

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reads out his statement at a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 14, 2015, to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. The statement referred to past prime ministers' apologies over Japan's wartime acts. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Aquino acknowledges Japan's apologies for wartime atrocities

Philippine President Benigno Aquino holds a press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on June 5, 2015, on the last of his four-day state visit to Japan. Aquino said he acknowledges the apologies offered by several Japanese leaders and officials for Japan's atrocities during World War II, including in his country, and vowed to care for Filipino women who were victims of sexual abuse at that time. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Consistency, pragmatism key in crafting Abe statement: experts

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe addresses a summit of Asian and African leaders in Jakarta on April 22, 2015. His speech that omitted parts of past Japanese statements regarding the country's perception of wartime history is likely to fuel speculation that he may water down previous government apologies for Japan's acts during and before World War II in a statement he plans to issue in August to mark the 70th anniversary of the war's end. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Retired LDP dove urges Abe to uphold past WWII apologies

Yohei Kono, a former politician of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, delivers a speech at a hotel in Nagoya, central Japan, on Feb. 24, 2015. Kono, known for his dovishness, urged Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during the speech to uphold the country's past apologies and expressions of remorse for Japan's wartime aggression in Asia, ahead of the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-sex slaves from Taiwan seek apology, compensation from Japan

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Six women in Taiwan who were forced to serve as ''comfort women'' for the Japanese military during World War II lodge a protest on Aug. 15 in Taipei, seeking apologies and compensation from the Japanese government. (Kyodo)

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Goodwill head apologizes for move seen as attempt to evade order

TOKYO, Japan - Masahiro Origuchi (R), chairman of Goodwill Group Inc., and Koichi Higuchi, president of Comsn Inc., hold a news conference in Tokyo on June 8. Ogiguchi offered his apologies for a move that many saw as an attempt to circumvent a government order effectively directing Comsn Inc., a Goodwill unit running the nation's largest nursing care service, to discontinue operations. (Kyodo)

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Goodwill head apologizes for move seen as attempt to evade order

TOKYO, Japan - Koichi Higuchi (L), president of Comsn Inc., and Masahiro Origuchi (C), chairman of Goodwill Group Inc., bow in apology during a press conference in Tokyo on June 8. Ogiguchi offered his apologies for a move that many saw as an attempt to circumvent a government order effectively directing Comsn Inc., a Goodwill unit running the nation's largest nursing care service, to discontinue operations. (Kyodo)

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Kin mark 2nd anniversary of JR West train disaster

AMAGASAKI, Japan - Masao Yamazaki, president of West Japan Railway Co., delivers his apologies during a ceremony at the Amagasaki Cultural Center in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, on April 24 to mark the second anniversary of the fatal derailment accident in Amagasaki which killed 107 people and injured 562 others. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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American missionary travels to China after release by N. Korea

BEIJING, China - U.S. missionary Robert Park, who has been detained in North Korea since December, arrived at Beijing Capital International Airport from Pyongyang on Feb. 6, 2010, a day after North Korea said he would be released because he has reflected on his act and offered apologies. (Kyodo)

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NHK chief apologies over insider stock trading by employees

TOKYO, Japan - NHK President Genichi Hashimoto (C) apologizes to Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Hiroya Masuda (R) during a meeting at the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry on Jan. 18 over allegations that three NHK employees -- two reporters and one director -- were involved in insider trading. Masuda ordered NHK to check whether other NHK employees in news sections are involved in illegal stock trading. (Kyodo)

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Commander apologizes for fire at U.S. Navy's ammunition depot

SASEBO, Japan - Capt. Tilghman Payne (R), commander at the Fleet Activities Sasebo naval base, meets with Sasebo Mayor Akira Mitsutake at the city hall on Oct. 22 to convey his apologies for worrying city residents about the fire that occurred at a woodworking shop at the Maehata ammunition depot the previous day. (Kyodo)

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Toyota announces global recall of Prius, other hybrid models

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Co. President Akio Toyoda is seen during a press conference at the automaker's Tokyo office on Feb. 9, 2010. He offered apologies as he announced a global recall of about 400,000 of the automaker's four hybrid models including its best-selling Prius. (Kyodo)