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WWII 70 ANNIVERSARY

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.
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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.
Japan Times
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.
JAPAN
Jul 21, 2015
Panel to advise 'aggression' be included in Abe's war anniversary statement
A government advisory panel to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is leaning toward proposing that the war anniversary statement he will issue this summer describe World War II as an act of 'aggression.'
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 16, 2015
China invites over 50 leaders to WWII event, but most still undecided
China has invited leaders from more than 50 countries to a ceremony on Sept. 3 to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, but most of them are still undecided about their participation, diplomatic sources said Thursday.
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JAPAN / History
Jul 15, 2015
Okinawa bears war scars 70 years on
Toshie Asato still regrets that she could not save the life of her 9-month-old baby in the closing days of World War II 70 years ago.
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CULTURE / Art
Jul 14, 2015
'MOT Collection: Postwar Art in Close-Up'
July 18-Oct. 12
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CULTURE / Art
Jul 14, 2015
'War and Postwar: The Prism of the Times'
July 18-Jan. 31
Weak yen fattens tourist wallets in Japan
People visit the Ameya Yokocho market in Tokyo's Ueno district during the Golden Week holiday on Tuesday.
Biden calls ally Japan ‘xenophobic’ along with rivals China and Russia
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks in Syracuse, New York, on April 25.
Number of vacant homes in Japan hits record high of 9 million
A vacant house in Tokyo is seen demolished in January 2020.
Harajuku strives to reclaim its former glory — and surpass it
Laforet Harajuku, which celebrated its 45th anniversary last year, has been a witness to the district's evolution over the years.
Saudi Arabia steps up Gaza-related arrests as Israel ties edge closer
The arrests for Gaza-related posts indicate Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s regime will take a hard line against citizens not toeing the line when it comes to normalizing ties with Israel.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
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.

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