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WWII

Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 28, 2016
Full text of Abe's address at Pearl Harbor
The following is the full text of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's address Tuesday at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, following a summit with U.S. President Barack Obama and a visit to the USS Arizona Memorial.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 28, 2016
Chinese scholar urges Abe to follow Pearl Harbor with Nanjing visit
Now that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has visited Pearl Harbor with U.S. President Barack Obama in a show of reconciliation between the two World War II foes, a U.S.-based Chinese scholar has suggested that Abe take a step further to achieve rapprochement with China over wartime history.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 28, 2016
China dismisses Abe's Pearl Harbor visit, suggests Japan is unrepentant
China on Tuesday poured cold water on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to Pearl Harbor, saying Japan must reconcile with parts of Asia victimized by its wartime aggression if it wants to put that history behind it and move forward.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 27, 2016
In Hawaii, Abe looks to remember war, reinforce U.S. relationship
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived in Hawaii Monday morning local time for a two-day visit that appears to be as much about shoring up his credentials as a statesman and trying to address concerns about the future of U.S.-Japan relations under Donald Trump as it is about remembering the past.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 27, 2016
Origami crane made by A-bomb victim Sadako Sasaki on display at USS Arizona memorial
As a symbol of reconciliation between the United States and Japan, a paper crane made by Sadako Sasaki, an atomic bomb victim from Hiroshima, is on display at the visitor center at the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, where Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visit Tuesday local time.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Dec 26, 2016
Abe's Pearl Harbor visit will do little to dispel theories persisting over the 1941 attack
The die-hard conspiracy theories on Pearl Harbor will continue to stir interest on both sides of the Pacific regardless of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 24, 2016
Most Japanese feel unfriendly toward Russia: survey
Roughly eight out of 10 Japanese feel unfriendly toward Russia, according to results of a government survey conducted after Tokyo's unsuccessful bid to settle a 70-year-old territorial row blocking the signing a peace treaty to end the war.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 24, 2016
Japan, U.S. to jointly collect remains of war dead: sources
Japan and the United States will start jointly collecting war remains next year to accelerate the task and bolster the military alliance.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 15, 2016
Japan's Southeast Asia offensive in retrospective
The effects of Japan's seizure of Southeast Asia that began to unfold 75 years ago this week still reverberate today.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 14, 2016
Siblings find peace after visiting lost father's Okinawa grave
Three Japanese-Filipino siblings were recently reconnected to their Japanese father, who was forced to leave them during World War II to serve the Imperial Japanese Army in the Philippines and eventually was repatriated to Japan.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 14, 2016
Osaka kindergarten teaches prewar ideals, Imperial Rescript
At first glance, the Tsukamoto kindergarten looks like any other school in Japan, but its unique curriculum is reminiscent of the prewar era.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 13, 2016
China holds annual ceremony for victims of Nanjing massacre
China held a memorial ceremony Tuesday for victims of the 1937 massacre committed by Japanese troops in Nanjing, as the two countries have been pushing to improve relations overshadowed for years by territorial and wartime issues.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 12, 2016
A Machiavellian U.S. and Japan's Northern Territories
Shinzo Abe will likely be disappointed if he expects progress toward a resolution of Japan's territorial dispute with Russia will be made when he meets with Vladimir Putin this week.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 10, 2016
A Taiwanese rights group opens a comfort women museum in Taipei
A Taipei-based women's rights group Saturday opened the island's first museum dedicated to Taiwanese "comfort women" forced to work in Japan's wartime military brothels.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 8, 2016
China should heed Pearl Harbor's lessons
Just as Japan did in the 1930s, China is defying international opinion and challenging the maritime status quo in the western Pacific.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 8, 2016
China to Abe: We, too, have war-linked sites worth visiting
The missive is in response to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's plan to go to Pearl Harbor to pay tribute to war victims this month.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 8, 2016
On 75th anniversary, U.S. veterans recall Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
It has been 75 years but U.S. Navy veteran James Leavelle can still recall watching with horror as Japanese warplanes rained bombs on his fellow sailors in the surprise attack at Pearl Harbor that plunged the United States into World War II.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 7, 2016
Japanese professor creates online archive documenting Pearl Harbor attack
On Dec. 7, 1941, Peter Willett was feeding his rabbits in the backyard of his house at Ford Island, which sits in the middle of Hawaii's Pearl Harbor.
EDITORIALS
Dec 7, 2016
Abe's tribute at Pearl Harbor
If Shinzo Abe's visit to Pearl Harbor matters as a symbolic gesture of reconciliation with the U.S., he should consider similar steps with Japan's Asian neighbors.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 7, 2016
Setting the record straight on war's start
Startling evidence has been unearthed revealing machinations by the Japanese military to shift blame after the war over the surprise attacks that started the conflict.

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