Japan's Abe faces wartime history at Anne Frank house


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  • Monday, 24 Mar 2014

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits the Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam March 23, 2014. REUTERS/Cris Toala Olivares

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - At a visit to the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Sunday that nations must face the facts of history, and his spokesman said there was no contradiction with his recent controversial visit to the Yasukuni war shrine at home.

The house, where the German-born Jewish girl kept a diary of her life in hiding before she was discovered and died in a Nazi concentration camp, is now one of the best-known memorials to the victims of the Holocaust, drawing more than a million visitors each year.

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