National
NRA makes new reactor safety regimen official
The Nuclear Regulation Authority officially approves new safety requirements for reactors aimed at preventing disasters like the catastrophe at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.
National Jun 14, 2013
White House ex-official blasts spins on history
A former senior U.S. government official has criticized Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and other leaders for their historical views toward other parts of Asia during the war. Jeffrey Bader, former senior adviser for Asian affairs at the National Security Council, also warned Wednesday that ...
Review Jun 9, 2013
Unlike Germany, Japan's right still wrong on wartime history
by Jeff Kingston
It seems like there is no time like the present for Japanese to reflect on the wartime past. Japan’s shared history with Asia has long been a running sore, dividing Japanese about what happened and why, a discourse that clouds the issue of war ...
Editorial May 15, 2013
Nationalism will undermine Japan
The prime minister's remarks about Yasukuni Shrine as well as his attitude toward the nation's past "aggression" threaten to undermine international trust in Japan.
National Apr 17, 2013
Lake Hamana searched for WWII sunken tank
by Shogo Takagi
A project is under way to find a “phantom tank” at the bottom of Lake Hamana in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture. The Imperial Japanese Army produced two Type 4 Chi-To medium-heavy tanks on a trial basis near the end of World War II, utilizing what ...
Japan-related Apr 17, 2013
Japan must re-learn its militarist past
by Pankaj Mishra
Japan's conservative rulers will need a more capacious sense of history if they are to succeed in building new bridges with the country's Asian neighbors.
Review Mar 31, 2013
An account of POWs 'in hell'
by Jeff Kingston
CAPTURED: The Forgotten Men of Guam, by Roger Mansell. Edited by Linda Goetz Holmes. Naval Institute Press, 2012, 288 pp., $33.95 (hardcover) The 140,000 allied prisoners of war captured by the Japanese during World War II endured horrific cruelties and a comparatively high percentage ...
Global-related Mar 1, 2013
Today's take on Stalingrad
by Andrey Borodaevskiy
In one of Moscow’s central subway stations — Arbatskaya — the escalator leading up to the city exit ends in a spacious vestibule. On the front wall, a classic frame several meters high is covered with white plaster. It bears no image, and the ...