21.   Unlike Germany, Japan has been perceived as resisting responsibility for wartime atrocities.

22.   Prosecutors said the former chief of military intelligence masterminded the killing to keep the bishop from testifying in possible trials over wartime atrocities.

23.   A county court found insufficient evidence Monday to convict six former Croat soldiers of wartime atrocities against rebel minority Serbs.

24.   A junior high school in western Japan plans to use a controversial history textbook that many Asian countries say whitewashes wartime atrocities, a report said Saturday.

25.   A judge Tuesday ordered the extradition to Latvia of Nazi war crimes suspect Konrads Kalejs, where he is wanted for alleged wartime atrocities.

26.   A television journalist whose documentary on Croat wartime atrocities recently stirred heated debate here died Tuesday in a car accident in southern Croatia, police said.

27.   A top official with a banned Congolese human rights group lashed out Saturday at the Congolese government for refusing to cooperate with U.N. investigators probing alleged wartime atrocities.

28.   Although Japan has agreed to do so, it worries about inviting demands for civilian compensation for wartime atrocities.

29.   An alleged Latvian war criminal took the stand to deny involvement in wartime atrocities.

30.   Amnesty for wartime atrocities has been a key issue in talks.