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WORLD WAR II

Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Jul 26, 2014
Japan's baptism of fire: World War I put country on a collision course with West
World War I had massive political, economic, social ramifications on an ambitious East Asian nation.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 15, 2014
How World War I inspired independent India
It's been almost forgotten that more than 1 million subjects of undivided colonial India fought in World War I for the Allies — about 75,000 lost their lives — following a massive recruitment drive by their British masters. The new age of nationalism ushered in by the Great War inspired Indian independence.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 11, 2014
If only the U.S. had stayed out of WWI
Did U.S. intervention in the latter stage of World War I end up in just prolonging the European slaughter? David A. Stockman, first-term budget director for President Ronald Reagan, says it did as well as trigger a cascade of offenses later on in the 20th century.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Jul 5, 2014
Battle of Saipan: beginning of the end
Seventy years ago, the Imperial Japanese Army lost a pivotal battle over the Pacific island of Saipan, a defeat that put Tokyo within range of high-altitude U.S. B-29 bombing raids that could evade Japan's inadequate air defenses.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Jul 5, 2014
Battle of Saipan: a brutal invasion that claimed 55,000 lives
'It's hard to dig a hole when you're lying on your stomach digging with your chin'
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Jul 5, 2014
Servia strikes first blow; first private air raid shelter unveiled in Tokyo; torrential rain kills 106; LDP loses Upper House
100 YEARS AGO
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 4, 2014
Japan hits back at Beijing-Seoul WWII commemoration proposal
Japan is up in arms after a report that China and South Korea may join hands in commemorating its defeat on the 70th anniversary of World War II.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 2, 2014
History moves, but not always ahead
Victors of World War II find themselves unable to win the wars they wage against peasant societies. They combine self-righteousness with the perception of failure and decline.
BUSINESS
Jun 28, 2014
Could Kim be ready to declare war over a movie?
Asian geopolitics may never be the same now that Kim Jong Un has Seth Rogen and James Franco in his cross hairs.
COMMUNITY / Voices / Fiction
Jun 21, 2014
Rice: Connecting two nations that are natural friends
Haruko Harrison tells her story
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Jun 16, 2014
Japan's gambit in WWI set stage for a dark future
One hundred years ago, on June 28, 1914, Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo. It was the spark that led, one month later, to the beginning of World War I, which originally was expected to be confined to Europe and end in weeks. By the time it ended on Nov. 11, 1918, an estimated...
COMMUNITY / Voices / Fiction
Jun 14, 2014
Rice: 'Get away from us. We are like poison'
Sachiko the nurse reads the diary of Haruko Harrison's mother
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 12, 2014
Challenges of 1944 remain
Many of the challenges facing the world in June 1944 have still to be fully met. Occasions such as the recent memorial ceremonies at Normandy evoke sad memories as well as valuable self-reflection.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 10, 2014
Some companies still struggle with their dark WWII history
The amount of bookshelf space dedicated to the 12 years of Hitler's Third Reich often exceeds that of any other period in history, but the role and the complicity of companies in the atrocities committed by the Nazis continue to be shrouded in obscurity.
COMMUNITY / Voices / Fiction
Jun 7, 2014
Rice: Sowing the nascent seeds — my upbringing
Haruko Harrison begins her story

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