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COMMENTARY / Japan / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Oct 28, 2015
Who saved Kyoto from the atomic hellfire?
Many Americans have been given credit for sparing Kyoto from bombings, both conventional and atomic, during World War II, but it turns out that an old secretary of war was responsible.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 27, 2015
Ex-librarians collect Tokyo air raid maps in effort to promote peace
Former librarian Gen Yamazaki fixes his eyes on a map he found in the stack room at the National Diet Library in Tokyo in 1981.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 25, 2015
Taiwan leader honors good deeds Japan did while ruling island
President Ma Ying-jeou says it is important to remember the good things Japan did for the island while it was its colonial power.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Oct 25, 2015
Bees a barometer for Japan's ills, expert says
Mineo Kogenji, a 79-year-old retired honey farmer, has been endeavoring to plant trees across Japan to increase the amount of forests suitable for apiculture, or beekeeping.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Oct 23, 2015
Russia slams Japan's UNESCO papers on WWII POWs
Russia criticizes the contents of documents recently listed by the U.N. on Japanese soldiers held in the Soviet Union after World War II, saying they contradict a bilateral agreement on the issue.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 20, 2015
Empress turns 81, says April Palau trip left 'unforgettable impression'
Empress Michiko, on the occasion of her 81st birthday Tuesday, recalled her April trip to Palau with Emperor Akihito to commemorate those who lost their lives there during World War II, saying it "has left an unforgettable impression on me."
JAPAN
Oct 19, 2015
Abe's Yasukuni offering 'made privately,' Suga says
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Monday that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent a ritual offering to Yasukuni Shrine in a private capacity and that the government is not in a position to comment on his action.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Oct 19, 2015
UNESCO strikes political nerve with Nanking Massacre documents
A fierce battle is raging over UNESCO's stewardship of history.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Oct 19, 2015
Hawaii pig shipment after the war to be memorialized in Okinawa
To remember the story about Japanese immigrants in Hawaii sending a cargo of pigs to Okinawa to help alleviate a food crisis after World War II, a stone monument of porkers will be built in the city of Uruma in March.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 18, 2015
Internal affairs minister Takaichi, justice chief Iwaki visit Yasukuni
Cabinet ministers Sanae Takaichi and Mitsuhide Iwaki visit the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo a day after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent an offering.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Oct 17, 2015
Japan's public diplomacy of churlish cluelessness
Enough is enough. How dare UNESCO inscribe primary sources and a wartime video about the Nanking mayhem into global memory? I fully support the Japanese government's threats to withdraw funding from UNESCO to protest its recent decision to include a dossier submitted by China, "Documents of Nanjing Massacre,"...
JAPAN
Oct 16, 2015
Hase mulls Paris trip amid angst over UNESCO's documentary heritage listing system
Culture minister Hiroshi Hase said Friday he is considering attending UNESCO's General Conference in Paris in November to seek a review of the documentary heritage registration system, after documents on the 1937 Nanking Massacre submitted by China were added to the list despite Tokyo's objection.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 15, 2015
The Abe government versus the Emperor on history issues
Shinzo Abe and the Foreign Ministry have been mincing words when it comes to Japan's war responsibility, in stark contrast with Emperor Akihito's forthright statements of remorse and apology.
JAPAN
Oct 15, 2015
A-bomb survivors in South Korea to seek UNESCO Memory of World listing
South Korean survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki plan to have documents related to their ordeals registered in the Memory of the World register, a UNESCO archive, a group that promotes their rights said Thursday.
JAPAN
Oct 15, 2015
Japan politicizing UNESCO with Siberia prisoner files, Russia says
A Russian government official has expressed opposition to the Memory of the World listing of Japanese files on the postwar internment of prisoners of war in Siberia, saying it is politicizing UNESCO similar to China's move with the Nanjing Massacre documents.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 15, 2015
Abe to skip Yasukuni Shrine during autumn festival: sources
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will not visit the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine during its upcoming autumn festival, apparently fearing that doing so could derail efforts to hold bilateral summit talks with China and South Korea, sources said Wednesday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Oct 14, 2015
Views from Tokyo: Have you felt Japan shifting to the right recently under Abe?
With the media reporting breathlessly that Japan is lurching to the right under the Shinzo Abe government, have people out and about in Tokyo sensed a rightward tilt?
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 14, 2015
Abe plans tribute to postwar Japanese prisoners during Uzbekistan trip
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plans to honor postwar Japanese prisoners involved in building what is now a reputed theater in Uzbekistan during a visit to the country later this month, diplomatic sources from two nations said.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 11, 2015
U.S. reluctant over possibility of Hiroshima hosting 2016 G-7 summit, official says
The United States told Japan that it had been reluctant about the possibility of Hiroshima hosting next year's Group of Seven summit out of concern about reactions by Americans, a U.S. government official said Sunday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 8, 2015
Ogasawara islander of Western descent says her WWII lasted for decades
For 93-year-old Kyoko Ohira, a resident of Chichijima Island in the Ogasawara chain, World War II did not end in 1945. It ended in 1968, when her ethnic Japanese school friends were at last allowed to return to the remote Pacific island.
Who needs AI when you have Hatsune Miku?
Over the first six months of 2024, a handful of songs using Vocaloid singer Hatsune Miku’s voice have enjoyed widespread attention, underlining a global interest in the character and the technology she represents.
Yen’s woes seem too big for even a BOJ hike this month to solve
The Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo
China’s economic growth comes in worse than expected
Pedestrians in the Wangfujing shopping area in Beijing on July 11, 2024. China's economic growth in the second quarter was lower than forecast, adding pressure on Chinese leaders to lift confidence at the Chinese Communist Party's third plenum this week.
Kansai airports to increase takeoff and landing slots ahead of Osaka Expo
Kansai International Airport in Izumisano, Osaka Prefecture. The upper limit on the number of takeoff and landing slots at the airport as well as Kobe Airport in Hyogo Prefecture will be raised in spring next year ahead of the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka.
Shooter came within inches of killing Trump, but left few clues as to why
An aerial view shows the stage where Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump had been standing during an assassination attempt the day before, and the roof of a nearby building where a gunman was shot dead by law enforcement, in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Sunday.
The neurological disorder that 'kills culture'
Akiko Trush says her experience with the neurological disorder dystonia left her feeling like she wanted to chop her own hand off.
How to beat Japan’s summer heat in ways better for the planet
Tenugui towels hang up to dry at a dyeing company in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, on May 8. The durable and versatile tenugui, which many people have in their homes, can be used in many ways to cool one’s body.
After Trump shooting, U.S. presidential race might take a violent turn
United States Secret Service Counter Snipers stand guard on a rooftop during a campaign rally for U.S. President Donald Trump in Avoca, Pennsylvania, in 2020.
No AC this summer? No problem (for me).
Think air conditioning is a requirement for a Tokyo summer? Think again.
She’s paying ¥1 million to help behind the scenes at the Paris Olympics
Mai Tarumi, who previously volunteered at the postponed Tokyo Olympics in 2021, has a travel budget of ¥1 million for her trip to volunteer at the Paris Games.

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