World War II
May 21, 2013
Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto’s mouth was flapping again on May 20 in defense of his views on “comfort women,” saying even the South Korean military was guilty of using...
May 20, 2013
It is almost unthinkable that Toro Hashimoto, mayor of Osaka--Japan’s second largest city after Tokyo--has no sense of shame in repeating the irresponsible habits of several...
May 11, 2013
TAIPEI, Taiwan--Yang Jingtao did what many young, brave Chinese did--he left his home as a teenager to fight the invading Japanese in World War II.
April 29, 2013
MOSCOW--Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and President Vladimir Putin met in the Russian capital on April 29 to release a joint statement announcing the resumption of negotiations...
April 27, 2013
Philosopher Shunsuke Tsurumi once wrote: "Having been told of the nation's defeat in World War II during the summer holiday of 1945, the hearts of schoolteachers were heavy as...
April 14, 2013
As Japan prepared to enter World War II, the government drew up codes disguised as weather bulletins, to be broadcast on public radio to relay the course of developments to...
April 12, 2013
Locked in an acrimonious territorial dispute over a group of islets in the East China Sea, there are few signs of a thaw in the frosty relations between Japan and China.
March 20, 2013
Ever since she was a young girl growing up in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, Ritsuko Kenmoku had a thirst for knowledge. She loved going to school.
February 01, 2013
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he would shelve his long-held plan to review the 1993 government statement that expressed remorse for the suffering of "comfort women" before and ...
January 31, 2013
HACKENSACK, New Jersey--After noticing plaques at the local courthouse commemorating slavery, the Holocaust and other atrocities, Korean-American community leader Chejin Park...
January 08, 2013
HIROSHIMA--An original photo showing the mushroom cloud over Hiroshima split into two parts, one on top of the other, has been found at an elementary school located near ground ...
December 08, 2012
In my opinion, many slogans are "timeless" because they are like worn cliches. They all sound familiar.
December 07, 2012
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii--More than 2,000 people are gathering at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7 to mark the 71st anniversary of the Japanese attack that killed thousands of people and...
November 14, 2012
A military squad has safely removed a 250-kilogram (550 pound) World War II bomb found two weeks ago near the runway of a major airport in northern Japan.
October 30, 2012
A major airport in northern Japan was closed on Oct. 30 after construction workers found an unexploded bomb believed to be from World War II.
October 28, 2012
Shortly before the end of World War II in 1945, 10-year-old Tsuyoshi Amemiya noticed a group of young Koreans, not much older than himself, planting seedlings and cultivating...
October 11, 2012
In early September, I traveled during my summer vacation to the southern city of Jinju, South Korea, about a one-hour bus ride on the expressway from Busan.
September 14, 2012
BEIJING--China is raising Japan’s wartime past in the latest dispute over the Senkaku Islands, apparently in hopes of winning support for its territorial claims from...
August 27, 2012
Older people are always complaining about the younger generation. When I was a young adult, one of the beefs about my generation was, "These kids don't even know the difference ...
August 22, 2012
With the remains of some 10,000 Imperial Japanese soldiers still unaccounted for on Iwojima island, one seemingly impenetrable final resting site is beneath a runway still in...