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JAPAN / Politics
May 28, 2016
Chinese foreign minister says Nanking Massacre deserves more attention than Hiroshima
China's foreign minister has said that the atrocities committed by Japan during World War II deserve "even more attention" than the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
May 27, 2016
Obama makes history, confronts past in Hiroshima
The U.S. president paid tribute to atomic bombing victims, reaffirmed U.S.-Japan ties and called for the elimination of nuclear weapons.
JAPAN
May 26, 2016
On eve of Obama's visit, calls to revise SOFA grow in Hiroshima
On the eve of U.S. President Barack Obama's historic visit to Hiroshima, residents and hibakusha on Thursday expressed support for calls to revise the U.S.-Japan Status of Forces Agreement following the suspected rape and murder of a 20-year-old Japanese woman in Okinawa Prefecture by a former marine....
JAPAN / History / OBAMA VISITS HIROSHIMA
May 26, 2016
Obama's Hiroshima visit reveals progress of reconciliation, disagreements over history
When it comes to hibakusha and the victorious Americans, one can expect a portrait of contrasts.
Japan Times
JAPAN / OBAMA VISITS HIROSHIMA
May 26, 2016
WWII fighter pilot's Japan experience: From foe to family
The long and circuitous life of 92-year-old World War II veteran Jerry Yellin reads like a work of fiction.
JAPAN / OBAMA VISITS HIROSHIMA
May 26, 2016
Hibakusha recalls horror of bombing, pain of stigmatization and road to healing
It took Tamiko Shiraishi nearly seven decades before she could come to terms with her experience surviving the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in August 1945.
COMMENTARY / World
May 18, 2016
May Day, Russia, Mayday!
Russian President Vladimir Putin used this year's holiday marking the Soviet victory in World War II to whip up jingoistic hysteria.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
May 15, 2016
Rather than apologize, Obama should vow to halve the U.S. nuclear stockpile
What remains is that egregious, gaudy number: America's 7,000 nuclear weapons, a number that countries without nuclear arms see as a slap in the face.
JAPAN / View from Osaka
May 14, 2016
Obama's Hiroshima visit sparks 'what if' questions
U.S. President Barack Obama's historic visit to Hiroshima later this month, the first ever by a sitting president, has rekindled the debate on both sides of the Pacific on what happened during the weeks leading up to the Aug. 6, 1945, atomic bombing of the city in the closing days of World War II.
EDITORIALS
May 11, 2016
Obama's visit to Hiroshima
President Barack Obama's planned visit to Hiroshima will no doubt have symbolic significance. Whether anything more will come of it remains to be seen.
COMMENTARY / World
May 10, 2016
A lesson about truth and justice from Auschwitz
At a trial for a German concentration camp guard, a Holocaust survivor seeks to put truth and justice before his desire for revenge.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 10, 2016
Russia marks WWII victory with military display of arms, some used in Syria
Russia rolled out an air defense missile system of the kind used to protect its base in Syria and some of the Russian jets flying missions there screamed overhead as it showcased its military war machine on Moscow's Red Square on Monday.
COMMUNITY / Issues / LAW OF THE LAND
May 8, 2016
Does the Japanese Constitution mean anything?
If the Liberal Democratic Party gets its way, the current charter, full of rights that are barely known, would be replaced with a constitution that's more about duties.

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