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WARTIME HISTORY

Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 6, 2016
Protesters in Tokyo denounce ¡®comfort women¡¯ deal
Activists fighting for women coerced into work at Japanese wartime military brothels urge Tokyo to scrap its deal with Seoul.
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 Â鶹´«Ã½ 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...
EDITORIALS
Jan 7, 2015
Don¡¯t duck war responsibility
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe must carefully consider the impact of his upcoming war anniversary message to avoid damaging ties with China and South Korea.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 19, 2014
NHK chief tells board ¡®comfort women¡¯ remarks no big deal
The controversy swirling around NHK shows no sign of simmering down, with Chairman Katsuto Momii reportedly playing down the explosive nature of the remarks he made at his first news conference in January over the wartime brothels used by the Imperial Japanese military.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Feb 3, 2014
Yasukuni: It¡¯s open to interpretation
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe¡¯s visit to Yasukuni Shrine in December stirred outrage at home and abroad because he was perceived as promoting his revisionist views on wartime history and violating the constitutional separation of state and religion.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 27, 2013
Ban shouldn¡¯t hit Abe¡¯s views: Suga
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga rebuffs criticism by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon over Â鶹´«Ã½ revisionist views of its wartime history.
JAPAN / Politics
May 14, 2013
Suga rushes to smother LDP¡¯s latest brush fire over war
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga leaps into damage control mode after the LDP¡¯s policy chief says President Shinzo Abe disagrees with the findings of the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal.
South Korea fires warning shots after North Korean soldiers crossed DMZ
North Korea's propaganda village Gijungdong as seen from a South Korea's observation post inside the Joint Security Area on the Demilitarized Zone in March 2023
Slowly but surely, Tokyo is becoming a hot spot for chicken rice
One of Singapore's most iconic dishes, the humble chicken rice is given an upscale treatment at a new Marunouchi cafe.
At Yasukuni, the politicians followed the script, but the shrine did not
People crowd in front of Yasukuni Shrine to pay tribute to the war dead on the 81st anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II, in Tokyo on Saturday.
New shinkansen model delivered to Taiwan
A new Taiwan High Speed Rail train car is unloaded from a cargo ship at a port in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, on Saturday.
Trump orders ¡®inappropriate¡¯ U.S.-South Korean military drills scaled back
A U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter flies over Camp Humphreys in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, on Monday, after Seoul said that its annual Ulchi Freedom Shield joint military exercises with the United States had started.
Unrelenting Russian anti-war protesters in Japan fight through inescapable doubt
Anti-war Russians protest Moscow's invasion of Ukraine in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward in February.
How U.S. bombing survey in Japan shed light on civilian sentiments of WWII
Residents are seen walking beside rubble in the city of Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, in this undated photo taken soon after the end of World War II.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
Takaichi needs Aso on her side to solidify position in LDP
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi attends a Liberal Democratic Party meeting alongside LDP Secretary-General Shunichi Suzuki (left) and LDP Vice President Taro Aso in Tokyo earlier this month
Ikarigata closer to emulating older brother Fujinokawa than many think
The future Fujinokawa (third from left) and Ikarigata (right) compete against each other at ages 5 and 3, respectively.

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