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Japan's Minister duck question on Nanjing massacre

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, TOKYO -- Japan's new defence minister, known for her revisionist views of Japan's wartime actions, declined on Thursday to say whether Japan liberated or invaded Asian countries before World War Two or if Japanese troops massacred civilians in China.Tomomi Inada, a 57-year old ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) lawmaker and close ally of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, took...

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Indonesia, Japan to increase bilateral relations

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The Indonesian Trade Ministry is intensifying cooperation on export and service promotions with Japan in an effort to step up economic and trade relations between the two countries."We are committed to supporting our mutual export promotion activities to increase bilateral trade," Nus Nuzulia Ishak, the director general for National Export Development (PEN) of the Trade Ministry,...