Abe considers calling off Russia visit in May due to coronavirus
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is considering giving up a plan to visit Russia to attend a ceremony on May 9 to mark the 75th anniversary of the former Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, Jiji Press learned Wednesday. Abe may skip ...
The Battle of Okinawa: Could more civilians have been saved?
The true lesson of the Battle of Okinawa may be that civilian deaths in war can and should be kept to the absolute minimum.
The Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum, founded in April 1996, said Wednesday it has appointed its first female director. Keiko Shinozaki, 52, previously managed the Nagasaki Municipal Government's division responsible for supporting atomic bomb survivors. "I would like to take responsibility to tell the world about what ...
Most remains found in Siberia unlikely from Japanese WWII detainees
A team of third-party experts has confirmed through a re-examination that about 70 percent of remains brought from Siberia to Japan are highly unlikely to be those of Japanese detainees, the welfare ministry said Wednesday. Last year, suspicions arose over the remains of 597 people ...
Under cloud of virus, few mark 75th anniversary of Tokyo firebombing
In a memorial service with only 10 people in attendance, Tokyo on Tuesday marked the 75th anniversary of the firebombing of the city by U.S. forces during World War II that killed an estimated 100,000 people, making it one of the most deadly air ...
The March 1945 firebombing of Tokyo and the immorality of war
The U.S. attack on Tokyo on the night of March 9-10, 1945, reinforces the reality that it usually is the civilians who suffer the most from the horrors of war.
Historians will begin combing the archives Monday, hoping to glean why Pius XII stayed silent during the Nazi extermination of Jews in the Holocaust. More than 200 researchers have applied for permission to settle in one of the small studies of the Vatican Apostolic Archives ...
Japan Times 1995: Terror strikes subways during morning rush hour
100 YEARS AGO Monday, March 22 1920 Traveler recalls alleged outrage in Tokyo cafe THE JAPAN TIMES A tale of poisoning, robbery, and abandonment was the hard luck story that Leonard W. Hartmans told a Kokusai representative yesterday. Since then he has not been heard from and cannot ...
Hiroshima museum showing rare color footage taken soon after atomic bombing
The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum is showing newly obtained color footage filmed shortly after the U.S. atomic bombing in August 1945. The footage shows Hiroshima from the ground and air between around October 1945 and February 1946, and on the occasion of a visit by ...
Soviet spy hailed by Russia for 'saving Krakow' from Nazis dies at 103
Russia on Thursday announced the death at 103 of veteran Soviet spy Alexei Botyan, whom it hailed as a hero for "saving" the Polish city of Krakow from the Nazis, although Poland disputes Moscow's version of events. Russia's SVR military intelligence agency said Botyan, who ...
South Korea's Moon stresses need to satisfy victims in wartime labor row with Japan
South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Tuesday reiterated the country's position of seeking to resolve issues with Japan over wartime labor lawsuits based on the will of the victims and their kin. Obtaining consent from victims is the most important principle in the dispute, an ...
Rediscovery of study on Nagasaki atomic bomb blast spotlights pioneering work by Kamekichi Sugimoto
A comparative study report on the development of child survivors of atomic blasts and those unexposed to radiation by the first chair of the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Survivors Council, Kamekichi Sugimoto, who died in 1979 at 77, has been discovered in the city of ...
