The U.S. government believed the “comfort women” issue was behind South Korean President Lee Myung-bak’s August 2012 visit to islets at the heart of a territorial dispute between Japan and South Korea, a U.S. document revealed on Tuesday. The visit by Lee to the islets, called Takeshima in Japan, Dokdo ...
Takeshi Nakatani, the sole Japanese tour guide at Poland’s national museum dedicated to the Auschwitz Nazi death camp, hopes the ...
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen says he has found the Imperial Navy’s biggest warship, lying on the seabed in the Philippines ...
The fierce monthlong Battle of Manila fought 70 years ago should not only be remembered for the destruction and loss of lives, but also for its strategic importance in the entire Pacific War, according to a Filipino historian. Ricardo Jose, a history professor at ...
Seventy years have not dulled the memories of survivors of the monthlong Battle of Manila. The mass killings by Japanese forces, the loved ones lost and the desperation are etched in their minds, as is the elation when American forces finally rescued them in ...
100 YEARS AGO Tuesday, March 30, 1915 Japanese sword sent to English teacher Mr. J. M. McGregor, once a popular teacher of English in Waseda University, went to England, it may be recalled, some years ago, to follow up a new line of work ...
Shigeru Takabayashi, 85, is a living witness of the convoluted history of the English language in Japan around the end of the Pacific War. In spring and summer 1945, the last months of the war, Takabayashi studied English — an enemy tongue ostracized in ...
The timing of the reversion of Okinawa to Japan from U.S. control in 1972 was negotiated by Tokyo and Washington to encourage a smooth transition of power from then-Prime Minister Eisaku Sato to his intended successor, previously classified U.S. documents show. While Washington initially ...
The 16-member advisory body will consider what Prime Minister Shinzo Abe should say in his planned statement to mark 70 years since World War II's end.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday made a former Japanese internment camp in Hawaii a national monument to “ensure its stories are told for generations.” Officials said Obama would give Honouliuli Internment Camp, near Pearl Harbor, protected status to highlight the “fragility of civil ...
Survivors and descendants of the victims of the 1945 Battle of Manila are pressing Japan to apologize for atrocities committed by its forces that left tens of thousands dead. Juan Jose Rocha, head of the Memorare-Manila 1945 Foundation, a group of survivors and descendants ...
Sometimes the world seems eternal; sometimes the end looms black and near. We moderns know the apocalyptic mood well, having survived Dec. 21, 2012, in spite of an ancient Mayan “prediction” of doom on that date, but, facing as we do numerous other portents ...
South Korea on Thursday criticized Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida for calling the disputed Sea of Japan islets of Takeshima part of Japanese territory. Lee Sang-deok, director-general of the South Korean Foreign Ministry’s Northeast Asian Affairs Bureau, summoned Kenji Kanasugi, minister at the Japanese Embassy ...
It is decades since Li Fengqin’s father was cut apart by Japanese doctors at a covert base used for human experiments, but she still hopes Tokyo will confront one of World War II’s most barbaric Asian chapters. “This debt of blood must be paid,” ...
The German prisoners of war in Japan fare far better than the Russian ones did 10 years ago, says a high officer of the Army, and that is largely due to the decisions of the Hague Conference to pay their salaries on top of ...
