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		<title>War memoirs digitized for posterity</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 00:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jun Hongo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hiroshima]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nagasaki]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Takuma Fukuyama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[27th in a series Takuma Fukuyama, 77, removes the red Smart Cover on his iPad 2, pushes the home button, taps an icon and then flicks and scrolls it until he arrives at the page he is looking for. He then pulls out a Kindle e-reader with a 6-inch screen and handles it with similar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Demons still haunt Christian soldier</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Setsuko Kamiya</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[26th in a series Before and during the war, Japanese believed the Emperor was a living god. They also believed they were fighting for him and dying on the battlefield was honorable. Christians were often the targets of discrimination during the era of Emperor worship, largely because they were judged as not regarding the monarch&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ex-army cadet, 81, recalls war mind-set</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natsuko Fukue</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[25th in a series For Kotaro Kaneko, 81, entering the elite Imperial Japanese Army Academy during the war was merely a way to a better life and pay, just as students today go to university to get a better job. If he hadn&#8217;t chosen the academy, Kaneko&#8217;s alternative would have been to enter high school [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Washington U. let nisei avoid internment</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Salter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ST. LOUIS &#8212; Yoshio Matsumoto was among the 110,000 Japanese-Americans seemingly bound for an internment camp soon after the United States entered World War II when a university he knew nothing about from a far off part of the country agreed to take him in. Last week, the 88-year-old retired engineer was back on campus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Imperial army war vet haunted by horrors in China</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natsuko Fukue</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[23rd in a series Ichiro Koyama&#8217;s schedule is filled with lectures, talks and interviews. The 88-year-old, a former soldier in the Imperial Japanese Army stationed in Jinan, Shandong Province in China, believes he has a duty to pass on his war experiences to younger generations. &#8220;I&#8217;m old now. This may be my last chance to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recalling Nagasaki&#8217;s fateful day</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jun Hongo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[22nd in a series FUKUOKA &#8212; The city has long been rebuilt and moved on, but Hiroshi Ito still can&#8217;t come to grips with Nagasaki&#8217;s obliteration by the United States 63 years ago. &#8220;I don&#8217;t have any hatred toward the U.S. now,&#8221; the 78-year-old A-bomb survivor said, rubbing burn scars on his right hand. &#8220;But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Veteran sheds hatred, finds Japan now like second home</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Takahiro Fukada</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[21st in a series On April 7, 1945, Jerry Yellin and his fellow P-51 pilots of fighter squadron 78 took off from Iwojima to escort B-29 bombers en route to Tokyo. Over the capital, Yellin saw the B-29s unload their lethal cargo. Little fires quickly spread to engulf wide areas, sending up smoke and debris, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding Papua war dead a vet&#8217;s life</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Mcneill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[20th in a series The lone survivor of an infantry unit on Papua New Guinea in World War II, Kokichi Nishimura swore to his comrades he would bring their bodies back to Japan. Sixty years later, he is still trying to fulfill his promise in a story of indomitable will and determination. In 1979, Yukiko [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women&#8217;s postwar triumph recalled</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Akemi Nakamura</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[19th in a series About four months after World War II ended, Beate Sirota Gordon arrived in the charred ruins of Tokyo from New York City as a newly hired member for the General Headquarters of the Allied Powers. The 22-year-old American got the job just because she wanted to return to the war-torn country [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Richie offers history lesson</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Takahiro Fukada</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[18th in a series On Dec. 7, 1941, a 17-year-old high school student named Donald Richie was fixing the fence at his house in Lima, Ohio, when his mother ran out on the porch to tell him and his father that she just heard over the radio that Japanese forces had attacked Pearl Harbor. That [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Donald Richie offers history lesson</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Takahiro Fukada</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pearl Harbor]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[18th in a series On Dec. 7, 1941, a 17-year-old high school student named Donald Richie was fixing the fence at his house in Lima, Ohio, when his mother ran out on the porch to tell him and his father that she just heard over the radio that Japanese forces had attacked Pearl Harbor. That [...]]]></description>
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		<title>War trauma leads to efforts to reconcile</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jun Hongo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[17th in a series Free-falling from approximately 27,000 feet after his B-29 was critically damaged while flying over the Kanto region, Raymond &#8220;Hap&#8221; Halloran was all but certain his fate had been sealed. The navigator-bombardier was parachuting down behind enemy lines, more than 2,400 km from his base on Saipan. It was January 1945. &#8220;It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Survivor still haunted by night&#8217;s fiery terror</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jun Hongo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sixteenth in a series The blasts were so bright that March 10, 1945, night that Hiroshi Kobayashi could see the pilots&#8217; faces in the low-flying formation of B-29 bombers as they dropped some 2,000 tons of incendiary shells and other explosives on his crowded Tokyo neighborhood. &#8220;I could catch a glimpse of the people inside [...]]]></description>
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		<title>War exacts top toll on bottom echelons: vet</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tai Kawabata</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Fifteenth in a series In his childhood, war and militarism surrounded Tota Kaneko, a well-known haiku poet and retiree from the Bank of Japan. When he was a sixth-grader, Japan invaded Manchuria. By the time he was a student at Mito High School, Japan was waging total war against China. Recalling the mood in his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aug. 13 field draftee fast-tracked to Soviet gulag</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:05:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jun Hongo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Fourteenth in a series For Yoshiro Yazawa, the misfortune of being drafted just two days before Japan&#8217;s 1945 surrender ended up costing him three years in a Soviet concentration camp. &#8220;I was drafted by the Imperial Japanese Army on Aug. 13, 1945,&#8221; said Yazawa, 80, recalling the fateful day. Japan announced its surrender only two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A long life of peace that sprung from war</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sayuri Daimon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Twelfth in a series Tenkoko Sonoda recalls that when the war ended on Aug. 15, 1945, she was left with an unanswered question: Why had she survived when so many of her close friends and neighbors had died? Three times during the war she had somehow come out alive after U.S. air raids. Now an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vivisectionist recalls his day of reckoning</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jun Hongo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Eleventh in a series Donning the crisp, Imperial Japanese Army khakis gave Ken Yuasa a sense of power, as a superior being on a mission to liberate China from Western colonialism. &#8220;The uniform made me feel incredibly sharp. Once I put it on, I was convinced Japan would triumph,&#8221; recalled the wartime surgeon, who was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The horror of war cannot be forgotten</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaho Shimizu</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Tenth in a series SHIZUOKA &#8212; Shuichi Maeda worries about what will happen to society when elderly people who know firsthand the fear of war are gone. That is why Maeda &#8212; who shipped out to central China in 1940 and fought for five long and bloody years &#8212; has written two memoirs, published privately [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hellcat bent for leather &#8212; a navy flyboy&#8217;s tale</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric L. Due</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[, Saipan and Saigon harbor of French Indochina (Vietnam), hitting oil tankers and fuel facilities critical to Japan&#8217;s war effort &#8212; all surprise hits. &#8220;The Saigon River was ink blue,&#8221; Olson recalled. Task Force 39&#8242;s speed was part of the element of surprise plotted by Adm. William &#8220;Bull&#8221; Halsey. &#8220;We always assumed every raid was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Veteran navy officer keeps an open mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jun Hongo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Eighth in a series As the public still debates the Imperial navy&#8217;s activities during the war, many veteran sailors say that at the time, at least, they saw their objective as liberating Asia from Western colonial rule. That is how Masayoshi Ito recalls the war. &#8220;I remember visiting Singapore often during my missions. We had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nemuro raid survivor longs for homeland</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2007 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kanako Takahara</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Seventh in a series Shohei Yamamoto still has to choke back tears when he talks about the day he was expelled from his village of Shibetoro on Etorofu Island off northern Hokkaido, two years after Japan was defeated in World War II. When about 150 islanders were shipped out on a Russian cargo ship in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vet blames those on high for war&#8217;s sins, delusions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jun Hongo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sixth in a series Beyond the torment of World War II and his postwar incarceration on Java and at Tokyo&#8217;s Sugamo Prison, one of Susumu Iida&#8217;s earliest recollections of the war is meeting an Imperial Japanese Army general in fall 1942. Gen. Iwane Matsui was a &#8220;frank man who looked like any other grandfather in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Censors unable to hide defeat: China escapee</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Setsuko Kamiya</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In April 1945, Yukika Sohma and her four small children boarded a packed train in Mudanjiang in Manchuria bound for the port of Rajin in what is today North Korea. From there, the family took a crowded ship to Niigata Prefecture, then another train to Fukushima Prefecture to join relatives. During their journey, the 33-year-old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spared Korean war criminal pursues redress</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Aug 2007 00:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Akemi Nakamura</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Lee Hak Rae was stunned on March 20, 1947, when he stood in an Australian military court in Singapore and was sentenced to hang as a war criminal for the brutal treatment he was accused of inflicting on ailing Allied prisoners of war who were forced to build the infamous Death Railway to their last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Journalism in the service of war authority</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2007 00:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Setsuko Kamiya</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Third in a series Kanji Murakami began his reporting career in January 1941, joining the Asahi Shimbun&#8217;s bureau in Seoul, or Keijo as it was then known, when the Korean Peninsula was under Japanese colonial rule. At that time media censorship was strong. A 1909 law imposed many restrictions and curbed freedom of speech. Every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;War orphan&#8217; recounts feeling of abandonment</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Akemi Nakamura</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Second in a series It was a rainy day in mid-August 1945. World War II was about to draw to a close, but nobody in the tiny Chinese village knew it. All they knew was that chaos was breaking out, and that the Russian military was approaching from the north. Noriko Suzuki was among some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surrender spared a young, doubting kamikaze</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 00:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Prideaux</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[To mark the 62nd anniversary of the end of the war, The Japan Times is publishing a series of interviews with firsthand witnesses of the country&#8217;s march to war and crushing defeat. Each of our subjects &#8212; speaking with the authority that only those in the evening of life can command &#8212; testifies to the [...]]]></description>
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