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| | The Korea Times : Japanese Apologize for Assassination of Empress (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | The descendants of Japanese assassins, who killed Empress Myongsong of the Choson dynasty, have apologized for their ancestors' brutal actions 110 years later. |
 | | Tatsumi Kawano, 84, whose mother's father, Shigeaki Kunitomo, led the assassins, and Keiko Ieiri, 77, granddaughter-in-law of another assassin, Kakitsu Ieiri, knelt before the tomb of the empress in Hongnung, east of Seoul, Tuesday, to pay homage to the victim. |
 | | The Japanese government was keeping a high alert on Queen Min, because she wielded such a large influence and was trying to forge closer ties with Russia than Japan to prevent Japanese predominance in Korea and their ambition to occupy the country. |
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