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Japanese minister quits over offensive comment on 2011 quake

Japanese Reconstruction Minister Masahiro Imamura resigned on Wednesday and was immediately replaced, one day after he made an offensive comment about the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, a media report said. Imamura, 70, said at a meeting of the ruling Liberal Democrat Party (PLD) on Tuesday that it was fortunate that the disaster on March 11, …

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April 26, 2017