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, by FANNING Rory
Seventy years ago today, the United States needlessly killed almost 100,000 people in a single air raid.
Today marks the seventieth anniversary of the American firebombing of Tokyo, World War II’s deadliest day. More people died that night from napalm bombs than in the atomic strikes on (...)
, by KINGSTON Jeff
Last week in this column, I suggested that Caroline Kennedy, the American ambassador to Japan, would be well advised to get the ball rolling on U.S. apologies for past misdeeds.
The anniversary of the Tokyo firebombing provides an opportunity to do so.
On the night of March 9-10, 1945, U.S. (...)
, by Mainichi Shimbun
Education ministry to require textbooks that hew to gov’t views on history, disputes
The education ministry decided on a new system of textbook screening reform on Nov. 12, in which descriptions in schoolbooks will reflect the government’s views on territorial disputes and historical accounts. (...)
, by Kyodo News
OSAKA — A war museum funded by Osaka Prefecture and the city of Osaka has unveiled a proposal to put more emphasis on air raids against the city, raising the possibility that display content on Japanese aggression during World War II may be reduced.
The Osaka International Peace Center has (...)
, by Kyodo News
The stir caused by a textbook’s descriptions of the mass lynching of Koreans following the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake has prompted Yokohama’s board of education to order schools to collect the books from students.
In an unprecedented move, the board ordered municipal junior high schools to (...)
, by McCORMACK Gavan
Introduction - The Servile and the Autonomous
As Japan moved to conduct House of Representatives elections in December 2012, attention in Western media and academic circles turned, as it does from time to time, to the question of whether the country was in decline, or even in some sort of (...)
, by ISHIHARA Nobuo
Since Shinzo Abe began his second stint as prime minister, observers in both Japan and abroad have been on high alert over Japan’s political swing to the right. In this series, we ask politicians and intellectuals where they think the Abe administration is headed, and whether the direction (...)
, by Mainichi Shimbun
BRUSSELS — Aug. 15 will mark 68 years since the end of World War II. It will also see the publication of a book detailing the experiences of eight Dutch women who were conscripted into sex servitude for the Imperial Japanese Army.
Titled “Broken Flowers,” the book will recount the life stories of (...)
, by Kyodo News
TOKYO (Kyodo) — The U.S. bombing of Tokyo in March 1945 that claimed some 100,000 lives ran counter to the humanitarian principles of international law, the Japanese government said in a document released Tuesday.
At the day’s Cabinet meeting, the government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe endorsed (...)
, by Kyodo News
TOKYO (Kyodo) — The U.S. bombing of Tokyo in March 1945 that claimed some 100,000 lives ran counter to the humanitarian principles of international law, the Japanese government said in a document released Tuesday.
At the day’s Cabinet meeting, the government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe endorsed (...)
, by Crowell Todd
Japan once again is left in the painful position of having to examine its 60-year-old World War II record and the country’s ultra- rightists have a new hero/martyr in Toshio Tamogami. The chief of staff of Japan’s Air Self-Defense Force, Tomogami on October 31 was abruptly fired from the air (...)
, by AIKO Utsumi
[Prime Minister Koizumi Junichiro’s visit to Yasukuni Shrine on August 15, the most controversial date possible, underscored Yasukuni’s central place in discussions of Japanese war memory and historical reconciliation in Northeast Asia. Debate typically involves the 14 Class-A war criminals (...)
, by MUTO Ichiyo
2002 Workshop: “National Security and Constitutional Rights in the Asia Pacific Region” Oct. 8-9, 2002, Australia National University.
I. Contradictory principles
The problematic of the 1947 Japanese constitution should be situated in the context of the inherent twistedness of the statehood of (...)
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