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Fukuda dismisses LDP calls for Tanaka's resignation

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka (L) speaks with Senior Vice Foreign Minister Shigeo Uetake during a House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee session June 6. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda later in the day dismissed calls from some ruling party officials to replace Tanaka for sparking a furor with her reported comments against U.S. missile defense policy.

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Mori apologizes but doesn't rescind 'divine nation' remark

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (L), holding a news conference at his official residence in Tokyo on May 26, apologizes again for sparking a furor with his remark that Japan is a divine country centering on the emperor. But he refused to withdraw the comment.

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Japan's tourism industry braces for fallout from Nanjing denial book

Photo taken Jan. 26, 2017, in Tokyo shows a book denying the 1937 Nanjing Massacre written in Japanese and English under a pen name by Toshio Motoya, chief executive of the major Japanese hotel chain operator APA Group. A furor over the hotel chain's decision to place the book in its rooms is rattling Japan's tourism industry as the money-making Lunar New Year holidays get under way. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's tourism industry braces for fallout from Nanjing denial book

Photo taken in December 2008 shows Toshio Motoya, chief executive of the major Japanese hotel chain operator APA Group, who wrote a book denying the 1937 Nanjing Massacre. A furor over the hotel chain's decision to place his book in its rooms is rattling Japan's tourism industry as the money-making Lunar New Year holidays get under way. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's tourism industry braces for fallout from Nanjing denial book

File photo taken in November 2015 shows Toshio Motoya (R), chief executive of the major Japanese hotel chain operator APA Group, and his wife Fumiko, the head of the group's hotel business. A furor over the hotel chain's decision to place a book denying the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, written by the husband, in its rooms is rattling Japan's tourism industry as the money-making Lunar New Year holidays get under way. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's tourism industry braces for fallout from Nanjing denial book

Photo taken Jan. 26, 2017, in a room of a hotel in Tokyo's Shinjuku district operated by APA Group shows a book denying the 1937 Nanjing Massacre written in Japanese and English under a pen name by Toshio Motoya, chief executive of the major Japanese hotel chain operator. A furor over the hotel chain's decision to place the book in its rooms is rattling Japan's tourism industry as the money-making Lunar New Year holidays get under way. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fukuda dismisses LDP calls for Tanaka's resignation

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka (L) speaks with Senior Vice Foreign Minister Shigeo Uetake during a House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee session June 6. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda later in the day dismissed calls from some ruling party officials to replace Tanaka for sparking a furor with her reported comments against U.S. missile defense policy.

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Mori apologizes but doesn't rescind 'divine nation' remark

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (L), holding a news conference at his official residence in Tokyo on May 26, apologizes again for sparking a furor with his remark that Japan is a divine country centering on the emperor. But he refused to withdraw the comment.