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70TH ANNIVERSARY

JAPAN / Politics
Aug 6, 2015
Abe advisory panel cites wartime 'aggression' but fails to address recent revisionism
A key advisory panel to Shinzo Abe published its report Thursday on Japan's modern history and postwar reconciliation, strongly criticizing the wartime "aggression" against other Asian countries but touching little on recent controversies over what is widely regarded as the prime minister's revisionist moves.
JAPAN
Aug 6, 2015
Full text of Hiroshima Peace Declaration by Mayor Kazumi Matsui
Below is the full text of the Peace Declaration delivered Thursday by Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui at the ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima:
JAPAN
Aug 6, 2015
Text of U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon's message to memorial ceremony on A-bomb anniversary
Below is the text of a message from U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon read out at the memorial ceremony in Hiroshima on the 70th anniversary Thursday of the U.S. atomic bombing:
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JAPAN
Aug 6, 2015
Text of Shinzo Abe's speech in Hiroshima on A-bomb anniversary
Below is the text of the speech delivered by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Thursday's memorial ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of the city's atomic bombing.
JAPAN / History
Aug 6, 2015
Russia releases Soviet Embassy's on-the-ground report from Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The Russian Foreign Ministry has released an on-site report on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki conducted by a team sent by the Soviet Embassy in Tokyo in September 1945.
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JAPAN
Aug 6, 2015
New York interfaith leaders mark 70th year since Hiroshima bombing
Buddhist, Hindu, Christian, Muslim and Jewish leaders gathered Wednesday in Manhattan to mark the 70th anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bombing with a ceremony featuring musicians and a survivor of the blast who now lives in New York state.
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JAPAN / History
Aug 6, 2015
Hibakusha of 'Korea's Hiroshima' still press for redress
The nuclear bomb detonated as a 16-year-old girl sat in a shanty town cradling her baby, waiting for her mother to return from selling candy.
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JAPAN / History
Aug 6, 2015
The coup against the Emperor's broadcast that never was
Just hours before the radio broadcast of Emperor Hirohito's announcement to the Japanese people that their government had accepted the military's unconditional surrender in World War II, a coup d'etat was being hatched with one of the aims being to steal the master records and stop the airing at all costs.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 5, 2015
Source believes Aug. 14 could be release date of Abe's war anniversary statement
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is eyeing Aug. 14 as the date he will release his statement on the 70th anniversary of World War II's end, a government source said Wednesday.
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JAPAN / History
Aug 5, 2015
Diary shows Eisenhower had misgivings about A-bomb attacks
A diary kept by a U.S. official has shown that two months after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, Dwight Eisenhower, then an Army general, expressed misgivings about what had happened, a U.S. think tank said Tuesday.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 4, 2015
Abe losing to his demons
On the 70th anniversary of Japan's defeat and surrender, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has a wonderful opportunity to set a new path for Japan, for Asia and the world. But will he take it?
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JAPAN / History
Aug 1, 2015
The top-secret flights that ended the war
Seventy years after the atomic bombings, time stands still on the Pacific island of Tinian.
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JAPAN / History
Aug 1, 2015
Pictures of World War II Imperial shelter released to public for first time in 50 years
The Imperial Household Agency on Saturday released the first images in half a century of an air-raid shelter where Emperor Hirohito and his ministers made some of Japan's most momentous decisions during World War II.
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JAPAN / History
Aug 1, 2015
Master recording of Hirohito's war-end speech released in digital form
A recording of Emperor Hirohito's voice declaring Japan's surrender in World War II has been brought back to life after 70 years, in a previously unavailable, higher quality recording of the historic broadcast that was made available to the public Sunday.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 30, 2015
Nation's political culture stands at major crossroads
Will Japan be dragged down by egocentric anti-intellectualism and suspension of judgment, or will a new civic culture turn the nation into a more mature democracy?
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JAPAN / History
Jul 29, 2015
How an old banyan tree kept a WWII soldier alive
The children and grandchildren of a former Imperial Japanese Army soldier visit Ie Island in Okinawa Prefecture by ferry from Okinawa Island every spring.
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JAPAN / History
Jul 28, 2015
Elderly Okinawa anti-war storytellers hand over role to younger successors
Yoshiko Shimabukuro ended her career as a storyteller at the Himeyuri Peace Museum in Itoman, Okinawa Prefecture, earlier this year, confident that her younger successors can help visitors understand the misery of war and importance of anti-war efforts.
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JAPAN / History
Jul 26, 2015
A-bomb victims remembered in Potsdam, where Truman ordered nuclear strikes
German and Japanese citizens in the city of Potsdam held a day of remembrance Saturday for victims of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki almost 70 years ago.
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JAPAN / History
Jul 25, 2015
Winds of war: Japan's balloon bombs took the Pacific battle to American soil
In May 1945, a pastor from Bly, Oregon, led his wife and a group of children on a day trip near Klamath Falls. They were all looking forward to hours of fishing and picnicking in fine weather. Everyone got out of the car while the Rev. Archie Mitchell was parking along a remote logging road and unloading the fishing tackle. Suddenly, he heard his wife, Elsie, who was five months pregnant, call out: "Look at what we've found! It looks like some kind of balloon."
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 22, 2015
U.S. diplomat hopes Abe will express 'remorse' in war anniversary statement
A senior U.S. diplomat handling Asian issues says he hopes Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will express remorse in a statement next month to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Yen rebounds strongly after first slide past ¥160 since 1990
The yen dropped to ¥160.245 per dollar on Monday before heading into the other direction to ¥155.01 amid speculation of an intervention by Japanese currency authorities.
JAL cancels international flight after captain gets drunk at Dallas hotel
A Japan Airlines' flight from Dallas to Tokyo was canceled last week after its captain got drunk at a local hotel.
Golden Week crowds greeted with high temperatures as holiday period kicks off
The departure lobby for domestic flights is crowded with travelers at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on Saturday, the first day of this year's Golden Week holidays.
India seen overtaking Japan in nominal GDP in 2025
The skyline of central Mumbai's financial district
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.

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