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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 ...
CBS News8d
Volunteer searching for WWII dead in Japanese caves unearths remains of hundreds of people
After the war, Okinawa remained under U.S. occupation until 1972, 20 years longer than most of Japan, and it remains host to a major U.S. military presence to this day. As Japan enjoyed a postwar ...
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 ...
Tokyo was filled with charred corpses after US firebombing 80 years ago. Survivors want compensation
Japan is remembering the 105,000 people killed in a single night, 80 years ago Monday, in the U.S. firebombing of the ...
The New York Times25d
Okinawa, a Small Island Caught Between Big Powers
The Americans had been there her whole life, when the United States seized Okinawa from Japan after the end of World War II. But she knew the dead girl, who was a customer at her family’s small ...
The Columbian6d
Japanese digger searches for WWII remains: ‘Best way to honor war dead is never to allow another war’
Takamatsu Gushiken turns on a headtorch and enters a cave buried in Okinawa’s jungle. He gently runs his fingers through the gravel until two pieces of bone emerge. These are from the ...
The Jordan Times20d
Japan's emperor hopes for peace, 80 years after WWII end
During WWII, Japan fought in China and Burma -- today, Myanmar -- against Allied forces, and tried to invade British-ruled India, of which Bangladesh was then a part. The war ended in August 1945 ...
Japan to invite stateless people born to Japanese in Philippines
TOKYO: The Japanese government plans to invite to Japan this summer stateless people born to Japanese nationals and left in ...