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WAR

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.
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.
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.
WORLD
Mar 22, 2015
Nine British medical students believed to have traveled to Syria
Nine British medical students have traveled to Syria, apparently to work in hospitals controlled by Islamic State, Britain's Observer newspaper reported Saturday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Mar 19, 2015
Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley and Graham Moore reflect on the complexities of Alan Turing
The story of Alan Turing and his role in breaking the Nazis' Enigma code in World War II has been told many times. But never has Britain's lauded mathematician been reincarnated as such a socially offensive, harsh and humorless character.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 17, 2015
Monitor says Syrian army killed six in toxic gas attack; military denies it
A group monitoring the Syrian civil war said Tuesday government forces carried out a poison gas attack that killed six people in the northwest, and medics posted videos of children suffering what they said was suffocation.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 16, 2015
Kerry suggests place for Assad in Syria talks
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said the United States would have to negotiate with Syrian President Bashar Assad for a political transition in Syria and was exploring ways with other countries to pressure him into agreeing to talks.
JAPAN
Mar 14, 2015
Musashi broke up on descent because of torpedoes, researchers say
Some of the first video taken of the sunken battleship Musashi reveals that it broke apart before coming to rest on the seafloor near the Philippines in 1944.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 13, 2015
China eyes new venue for end-of-war parade
China's planned military parade to mark the end of World War II is likely to be held at the site Japan attacked in 1937 to trigger the Second Sino-Japanese War, according to two officials with direct knowledge of the plan.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 11, 2015
Countering Islamic extremism
Is shunning the use of the term 'radical Islam' helping or hurting U.S. President Barack Obama's effort to combat violent extremism?
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Mar 10, 2015
Forty years after escaping war, 'boat people' find fortune back in Vietnam
As one of the Vietnam War's final battles raged four decades ago, Quynh Pham lay with her mother in a field covered in a stranger's blood. They survived only by pretending to be dead.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 10, 2015
Iraq calls for air power to protect antiquities
Iraq urged a U.S.-led military coalition on Sunday to use air power to protect the country's antiquities from Islamic State fighters looting and destroying some of the world's greatest archaeological treasures.
EDITORIALS
Mar 8, 2015
Learning from a sunken battleship
The discovery of the sunken battleship Musashi — the Imperial Japanese Navy's biggest warship — by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen last week should serve as an opportunity for anybody to contemplate the real face of war.

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