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By now it has surely dawned on Japan’s political establishment, eager for issues of Japanese war accountability to fade away, that appointing Aso Taro to the post of foreign minister last fall was a major mistake. While Aso’s provocative comments about Japanese imperialism and war conduct predated his tenure as the nation’s top diplomat, the historical record of forced labor in Japan by Asians and Allied POWs is being newly thrust into the media spotlight

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Japan's embattled Foreign Minister, Taro Aso, has been denounced by British former PoWs for his connection to Allied prisoners forced to work in slave-like conditions in his family's coalmines during the Second World War.

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Conservative Taro Aso easily won the presidency of Japan's struggling ruling party, virtually guaranteeing his election as prime minister later this week amid political and economic turmoil.

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Originally posted by JaynezTown:
As the Dollar bailouts hurt world stocks effecting the benchmark Nikkei a new order of fascist elite begin rule of Japan, but let the media continue the cover up on Fukuoka POW Branch Camp 26

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