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WAR

Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Apr 22, 2015
Korean 'war criminal' seeks redress from Japan
Seventy years after the end of World War II, a 90-year-old South Korean who was convicted of war crimes continues to seek justice and compensation from the Japanese government.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Apr 21, 2015
Relatives of Philippine leader Quirino recall 1953 act of forgiveness toward Japan
As the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II nears, one family in the Philippines remembers how their country and Japan re-established friendly ties after a tragedy that reduced parts of the Philippines, including Manila, to rubble and left more than a million Filipinos dead.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 16, 2015
What Abe should tell Congress
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe should use his upcoming speech before the U.S. Congress as an opportunity to erase suspicions about his historical views.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 14, 2015
Turkish denial causes genocide issue to fester
The 1915 Armenian genocide will remain a contentious issue until Turkey comes to terms with its past.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 12, 2015
Iraqi leader to seek arms with deferred payment on U.S. visit
Iraq's prime minister will seek President Barack Obama's help to acquire billions of dollars in drones and other U.S. arms to fight the Islamic State group during a U.S. visit this week, a senior Iraqi official said.
EDITORIALS
Apr 9, 2015
Keeping the memory of war alive
In visiting Palau, the Emperor is continuing his efforts to ensure that the memories of Japan's wartime experience are kept alive and passed down to future generations.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film / Wide Angle
Apr 8, 2015
Documentary on Japanese 'war brides' is gaining steam
The documentary-film scene just keeps getting better, and here's one recent example that strikes a chord. Three women (Kathryn Tolbert, Lucy Craft and Karen Kasmauski) — all first-born daughters of Japanese war brides who immigrated to the U.S. in the 1950s to wed Americans — have gotten...
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 6, 2015
Yemenis forced to take to sea from Aden as civil war rages through ancient port
The rocket that tore through a minivan outside the Aden Grand Hotel last week killing nine men, women and children was a clear message that it was time to leave. Yemen's civil war had come too close for comfort.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Apr 4, 2015
America's memory wars and the Vietnam debacle
April 30 marks the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, as Americans remember it — the day that the North Vietnamese army captured the capital of South Vietnam and reunified their country.
WORLD
Apr 4, 2015
Iraqi prime minister orders arrest of gangs looting in Tikrit
Sunni politicians said looting raged out of control in Tikrit on Friday, hours after Iraq's prime minister called on security forces to arrest anyone breaking the law after the city had been wrested back from Islamic State militants.
JAPAN
Apr 1, 2015
Draft diplomatic bluebook notes Japan's 'deep remorse' over WWII, determination to protect territorial sovereignty
Referring to Beijing's growing assertiveness at sea, the document also criticizes China for its continued efforts to “unilaterally change the status quo.”
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 27, 2015
Another civil war in Yemen
There has not been a 25-year period since the seventh century when there was not a civil war of one sort or another in Yemen. But the one this time is frightening the neighbors.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 27, 2015
Abe invited to address U.S. Congress April 29
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will address a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress on April 29, House Speaker John Boehner's press office said Thursday.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 26, 2015
House adopts plan to boost U.S. war funds while cutting Medicare
The U.S. House adopted a fiscal 2016 budget that would cut $5.5 trillion in federal spending and achieve balance in nine years while providing more defense spending than President Barack Obama has proposed.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 25, 2015
Battle of Iwojima forgotten, except toll
When Yoshitaka Shindo was a boy, he did not hear much from his family about his grandfather, Tadamichi Kuribayashi, commander of the Japanese troops who fought and died in the bloody Battle of Iwojima.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 24, 2015
Iraq request for U.S.-led Tikrit airstrikes "imminent": diplomat
Iraq's request to the U.S.-led coalition for airstrikes in the campaign to retake Tikrit from Islamic State insurgents is "imminent," a senior diplomat from a Western nation that is part of the coalition said Tuesday.
EDITORIALS
Mar 24, 2015
Wartime slogan should stay buried
The silence of the Abe administration on a the use of the phrase 'Hakko Ichiu' by an LDP lawmaker will only serve to raise suspicions about its attitude toward Japan's militaristic past.
JAPAN / History
Mar 24, 2015
Panel on war anniversary statement have heated debate on word 'aggression'
Members of an expert panel on the war anniversary statement to be issued this summer by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had a heated debate about whether Japan committed wartime "aggression," according to a summary of their discussion.
WORLD
Mar 23, 2015
Syrian insurgents 'mimicking ruthlessness' of army, rights group says
Insurgent groups in Syria have carried out scores of indiscriminate attacks that have killed and maimed civilians in violation of the laws of war, a Human Rights Watch report said on Monday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 22, 2015
Attacks on Islamic State militants highlight bubbling anger with group
Almost two years since Islamic State militants started taking territory to form their so-called caliphate, residents of a Syrian town are showing how people are now fighting back.

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