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Asia Commemorates End of World War II
But Monday's editorials in Chinese state media dismissed Japan's repeated apologies and questioned their sincerity. The Chinese and other Asians are particularly angered by the visits of Japanese officials to the Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japanese war dead, including convicted war criminals.
Security was stepped up around Japanese diplomatic missions in China Monday. Anti-Japanese sentiment has previously resulted in violence.
In the Australian capital of Canberra, thousands of people gathered at the War Memorial to pay tribute to the 40,000 Australians who died during the war. Prime Minister John Howard praised his country's role in the Allied victory over Japan.
"This was a good and just war fought not for conquest but for liberty. Freedom's torch was preserved not just here in Australia but in the Pacific and in Europe. This was a war of liberation, which in a real sense liberated the people of our once bitter enemies," he said.
Japan surrendered shortly after U.S. atomic bombs destroyed the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the first and only time nuclear weapons were used during war.
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