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South Korea's Supreme Court has said it will rule on Oct. 30 on a damages lawsuit against Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. filed by four victims of wartime forced labor under Japan's colonial rule. The Japanese government says all matters of assets and claims ...
English Premier League giants Chelsea are sending fans banned for anti-Semitism on diversity training courses that could include visits to former Nazi concentration camps, the club has said. The initiative, aimed at fans guilty of non-criminal racist acts, is part of owner Roman Abramovich's ongoing ...
Abe sends ritual offering to Yasukuni for shrine's autumn festival
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent a ritual offering Wednesday to Yasukuni Shrine, viewed as a symbol of Japan's wartime militarism by neighboring countries, on the first day of its four-day autumn festival. Abe, who is on a foreign trip to attend a meeting of Asian ...
Reflecting the nation's history, 'sōgō shōsha' are unique to Japan
The sōgō shōsha's organization and business model is unique to Japan. This is, for the most part, because they are a reflection of Japan's own unique economic development, first during the Meiji Restoration's period of rapid industrialization and commercialization aimed at building a strong ...
Tokyo protests South Korean Navy's hoisting of Yi Sun-sin flag during fleet review it skipped
The government has lodged a protest with South Korea after its navy hoisted a flag during Thursday's international fleet review symbolizing a 16th century Korean naval commander who fought off attacks from Japan. South Korea had requested that countries taking part in the event ensure ...
Japan's supertraders — a brand unto themselves
This is the first part of a new series of reports written by industry specialists. The first 12 articles are about Japanese general trading companies, or sōgō shōsha. The sōgō shōsha are unique, diversified and complex organizations that are known to have played a significant ...
Polish leader honors WWII diplomat who tried to help Jews, died in poverty
Poland's president and descendants of Holocaust survivors held a graveside ceremony Tuesday to honor a Polish diplomat in Switzerland who helped Jews escape Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II by issuing phony Latin American passports. The ceremony took place at the Friedental cemetery in Lucerne, ...
Mini-sub search ends for remains of 24 WWI GIs in Italy's Lake Garda
An underwater search in Italy for the remains of 24 Americans who fought in World War II ended Thursday without finding physical traces of the soldiers whose amphibious vehicle sank in a storm on Lake Garda. A three-person submarine scoured the bottom of Italy's largest ...
The office of San Francisco Mayor London Breed said Wednesday it is "unfortunate" that Osaka has decided to terminate their sister-city relationship over a statue symbolizing Asian "comfort women," a euphemism for the girls and women forced to work in Japanese military brothels before ...
Fate uncertain for World War II air raid shelter at closing Thai zoo
With the Sunday closure of Thailand's oldest zoo, the future of its historical World War II air raid shelter remains unclear. Dusit Zoo closed its doors to the public after running for eight decades. The zoo announced in early August that it would move from ...
Connecticut lawyer, 99, will retire 'when they carry me out of here'
Attorney Morton Katz, 99, recalls just one client assigned to him as a special public defender who made an issue of his age. That man, charged with stealing a car while on probation, was unhappy about how long it was taking to resolve his case. "He ...
Japanese-Canadians weigh a harsh WWII experience — one that surpassed their U.S. cousins
Thirty years after the Canadian government formally apologized over the internment and expulsion of citizens of Japanese ancestry following the outbreak of World War II, those affected still carry painful memories of discrimination and hardship. Over the years, many have questioned their identity and tried ...
