2005.04.22

Japan Regulator Restricts Citigroup Unit (AP). Japan's financial regulators are ordering Citigroup's Japan  trust banking unit to halt all new operations from May 2, accusing the bank of illegal practices. 2005.04.22

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Japan PM Apologizes for WWII Aggression (AP). Japan's prime minister expresses "deep remorse" over his country's World War II aggression against Asian neighbors in a speech at the Asia-Africa summit in Jakarta — a move aimed at defusing Tokyo's growing tensions with China. 2005.04.22

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Japanese lawmakers make pilgrimage to war shrine amid China row (AFP). Japanese lawmakers make a pilgrimage to a Tokyo shrine that honors World War II dead including war criminals, risking new friction with China, which has demanded Japan atone for its militarist past. 2005.04.22

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Japan presses Russia for preference in pipeline project (AFP). Japan threatens to withdraw its financial aid to a Russian pipeline linking east Siberian oil fields with the Pacific, unless it was given preference over China in the project. 2005.04.22

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UN's DPRK envoy steps aside. [BBC News ] The U.N.'s North Korea envoy steps down temporarily as links with a suspect in Iraq's oil-for-food scam are probed. 2005.04.22

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