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MANCHURIA

Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Sep 23, 2021
Researcher sees lesson for today in tragedy of settlers in Manchuria
Documentary-maker Takanori Tezuka says the era's blind faith in authority is a trait still seen in Japanese society today.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 17, 2021
The Manchuria crisis revisited
The Chinese have not forgotten Japan's 14-year occupation of Manchuria. In fact, official Chinese doctrine establishes the 1931 Manchurian Incident as the beginning of WWII.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books / RECENTLY PUBLISHED BOOKS ABOUT JAPAN
Dec 22, 2018
Toriko Takarabe's 'Heaven and Hell': A child's perspective of war's aftermath
Toriko Takarabe's 'Heaven and Hell,' a 2005 novel recently translated into English for the first time, provides the key to Takarabe's poetry and childhood, both of which were defined by Japan's brief colonial adventure in Manchuria.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Dec 7, 2017
Cosmetic surgeon Katsuya Takasu pays $275,000 for Emperor Hirohito memoir at NY auction
The bid, for the only-known World War II memoirs of late Emperor, was nearly double higher pre-auction estimates, which ranged from $100,000 to $150,000, according to auction house Bonhams.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Nov 11, 2017
'Beasts Head for Home': Abe Kobos' novel of alienation in postwar Manchuria
Columbia University PressKobo Abe's "Beasts Head for Home," translated by Richard F. Calichman, is a harrowing fictionalized account of a young Japanese man who journeys through the harsh wasteland of Manchuria to reach an ancestral homeland he has never seen.
Japan Times
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Sep 15, 2017
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Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Aug 19, 2017
Facing up to the cold hard truth of war
Although Japan and South Korea reached a final settlement several years ago involving payments to Korean women who were forced to sexually service Japanese troops in the 1930s and '40s, the issue won't go away, and not just because the new South Korean president is questioning the settlement, which was concluded by his predecessor. Japan wants everyone to forget about those women, who are all nearing the end of their lives, and when the government cries foul because some Korea-related organization continues to draw attention to them and what they suffered, it's because it thinks the other side is reneging on the deal. We've all agreed to drop the subject, Japan says. Can't we get on with other things?
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Jan 5, 2016
Militarist's 1942 essay praising writer Higuchi offers rare look at Japanese fascist view of literature
An essay published more than 70 years ago by a Japanese military police officer convicted over the extrajudicial killings of anarchists in 1923 expressed admiration for the prominent female writer Ichiyo Higuchi, according to the literary critic who recently found it in a rare publication.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Dec 12, 2015
Geling Yan draws from life in a tale 
of women in war
At the opening of Chinese-American author Geling Yan's best-selling novel "Little Aunt Crane," a 16-year-old girl by the name of Tatsuru, or "Crane," escapes a mass suicide that Japanese elders in a Manchurian village order to preserve their honor. The young girl's problems, however, have only just begun.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Jun 4, 2015
29 years since leaving China, war-displaced woman still struggles in Japan
At a language class earlier this year for war-displaced Japanese left behind in China as children at the end of World War II, Tsuyako Suzuki was suddenly reminded that it had been exactly 29 years since she managed to make it to the country of her parents.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Apr 11, 2015
Invoking Manchuria's cross-dressing spy
She was born the daughter of a Manchu prince in Beijing in 1907. Later, as she grew up in Japan, she earned notoriety for her flamboyant challenges to gender roles and her military exploits as a princess-spy. Even today Yoshiko Kawashima still stokes controversy, and Phyllis Birnbaum's new biography — "Manchu Princess, Japanese Spy: The Story of Kawashima Yoshiko, the Cross-Dressing Spy Who Commanded Her Own Army" — explains why.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Mar 7, 2015
Centennial lessons for Abe from the '21 Demands'
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and fellow revisionists prefer to think that Japan's 20th century imperialist aggression has been misunderstood. But on this score they are isolated not only from the international community, but also within Japan.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Feb 14, 2015
Manchu Princess, Japanese Spy: The Story of Kawashima Yoshiko, the Cross-Dressing Spy Who Commanded Her Own Army
Yoshiko Kawashima's life has been the subject of novels, soap operas and movies since the 1920s.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Dec 6, 2014
Opening WWI naval operations ended; U.S. architect plans Manchuria housing; Tokyo smog more poisonous; Ebola monkeys spur warning
The Navy Department yesterday published a survey of the operations of the different squadrons and divisions of the Imperial Navy since the outbreak of the world war, and announced that the first part of the operations has come to an end.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 10, 2013
Bloody 1938 Japan-Soviet battle re-enacted in Russian Far East
The 1938 clash between Imperial Japanese and Soviet forces at what was then the boundary between Manchuria and the Soviet Union was re-enacted Saturday at a memorial event near the battle site.
Japan’s cannabis market growing rapidly amid regulatory shift
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Philippines wants U.S. and Japan to take over rail deal eyed by China
Delfin Lorenzana
'Sugar Baby Riri' gets nine-year prison term over romance scam
Mai Watanabe, who went by the moniker “Sugar Baby Riri,” dated older men and swindled them out of money by telling them fictitious heartbreaking stories about herself to gain their sympathy.
At least one dead, seven missing after two MSDF helicopters crash off Izu Islands
Contact was lost with the two SH-60K helicopters, each carrying four crew, in an area east of Torishima in the Izu Island chain during anti-submarine warfare training Saturday night.
Tokyo Rainbow Pride lights up capital as organizers celebrate 30 years
Rainbow flags were flown through the capital's busy Shibuya and Harajuku areas for Tokyo Rainbow Pride events this weekend as organizers hailed 30 years of one of Asia's largest LGBTQ celebrations.
'Sugar Baby Riri' gets nine-year prison term over romance scam
Mai Watanabe, who went by the moniker “Sugar Baby Riri,” dated older men and swindled them out of money by telling them fictitious heartbreaking stories about herself to gain their sympathy.
A craft beer crawl through Tokyo’s top bars, brewpubs and dives
If all you drink is Asahi, Sapporo and Kirin, you're depriving yourself of some of the best craft beer Tokyo has to offer — and there sure is a lot of it out there.
Tsukiji 2030s: A stadium, culinary center and transportation hub
A computer-generated image shows redevelopment plans for the former site of the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo.
Hearing the impact of climate change in Okinawa, one bird call at a time
Toshihiro Kinjo (center), a research support technician at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, inspects an audio recording device in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 3 as Masako Ogasawara, a research support specialist at OIST, looks on.
Japan’s cannabis market growing rapidly amid regulatory shift
The legality of products that contain cannabinoids, a group of substances derived from the cannabis plant, has been somewhat murky in Japan.

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