A Plea for Justice for Japan’s So-Called Comfort Women
Mina Watanabe has made it her life’s work to tell the stories of the women who were sexually enslaved by the Japanese ...
Worldcrunch on MSN6d
What If The Ukraine War Never Ends? That's Where Japan Is With Moscow After 70 Years
It is likely that there will not be a peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia this year — or ever one at all. If ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN15d
The Secret World War II History of Koh Samui, the New Setting for ‘The White Lotus’
Behind the dreamy scenery of the HBO show’s latest location lurks an explosive story of Thailand’s involvement in the ...
Newsweek8d
Donald Trump Questions Why US Protects Japan
He has previously overseen the My Turn, Fact Check and News teams, and was a Senior Reporter before ... World War II, American General Douglas MacArthur dismantled the Japanese military. Now ...
WYSO Public Radio4d
In 1945, eighty years ago, no one knew how World War II would end
Eighty years ago, during World War II, the United States operated full-scale military operations worldwide while planning how ...
Business Insider27d
Japan has figured out how to build resilient housing in disaster-prone places — here's what the US can learn
After major seismic events ... This isn't just a result of building code reform: Japan lost a significant portion of its homes during World War II, and those that were rapidly built to replace ...
朝日新聞社6d
INTERVIEW/ Takumi Sato: Japan should stop acting like World War II ended on Aug. 15
Every August, Japanese media outlets offer specials on World War II and accounts of survivors ... Nagasaki were thrust into Japan’s public consciousness only after the country regained ...
The Washington Post25d
Gil Won-ok, memory keeper of wartime sex slavery by Japan, dies at 96
Like before, she was soon forced into ... One soldier slashed the top of her head with a knife, she said. After Japan’s surrender to end World War II, Ms. Gil boarded a ship that docked in ...
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal15d
Bridges: Texan-led Flying Tigers played major role in WWII Pacific Theater
The Flying Tigers were one of the first American air units to fight the Japanese as World War II began ... capabilities. Soon after his arrival in June 1937, Japan attacked; and Chennault ...
Al Jazeera English9d
New Zealand sacks diplomat who questioned Trump’s understanding of WWII
New Zealand has sacked its ambassador to the United Kingdom after the diplomat publicly ... of the events that precipitated World War II. The office of New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters ...