Fifty-six years since Japan's surrender, World War II's legacy continues to make headlines: Compensation sought by sex slaves; Controversy rages over history textbooks; Prime minister's pledge to visit Yasukuni Shrine draws fire.
The Pulitzer Prize winners for nonfiction the last two years have intensified the attention on Japan's war history: John Dower's postwar narrative and analysis "Embracing Defeat" in 1999 and Herbert Bix's biography "Hirohito" in 2000.
At the center of these books and media reports is the question of justice -- what really happened? Who was right and who wrong? Who was on the side of good and who evil?