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SOURCE: NY Times
11/10/19
Navy Submarine, Missing for 75 Years, Is Found Off Okinawa
Private explorers found the U.S.S. Grayback beneath 1,400 feet of water after realizing that a mistranslated Japanese war record had pointed searchers in the wrong direction.
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SOURCE: New York Times
9/23/19
America’s Secret History in East Asia
by Alexis Dudden
Japan and South Korea are at odds today because Washington has been playing favorites for decades.
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SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
8/19/19
New Documents Show Japan's Wartime Emperor Showed Remorse Over Nanjing Massacre
The notes, taken by former Imperial Household Agency chief Michiji Tajima, were released Monday by public broadcaster NHK, which aired a documentary on the subject Saturday.
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SOURCE: New York Times
8/5/2019
The Exhibit Lauded Freedom of Expression. It Was Silenced.
Statues of so-called comfort women have long been an irritant to Japanese nationalists who dispute that the women were forced into servitude.
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8/6/19
Samantha Smith's Dream of Peace and Nuclear Disarmament
by William Lambers
Samantha Smith taught us your voice matters and you can make a difference in ridding the world of nuclear weapons and achieving peace for all.
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8/4/19
“Mr. Straight Arrow,” John Hersey, and the decision to drop the atomic bomb
by D. M. Giangreco
What recent histories getsright--and wrong--about Harry S. Truman's decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan.
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SOURCE: Reuters
7/8/19
Japan, South Korea raise stakes in dispute over forced labor. History helps explain the conflict.
The countries share a bitter history dating to Japan’s colonization of the Korean peninsula from 1910 to 1945, which saw forced use of labor by Japanese companies and the use of “comfort women”, a Japanese euphemism for girls and women, many of them Korean, forced to work in its wartime brothels.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
7/8/2019
Why Japan and South Korea Still Spar Over History
Japan’s colonial rule over the Korean Peninsula ended more than seven decades ago yet that legacy still roils everyday politics on both sides of the strait.
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5/19/19
What Trump Could Learn About Immigration from Teddy Roosevelt
by Greg Bailey
The history of the Gentlemen’s Agreement of 1907.
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SOURCE: Time
4/28/19
Centuries ago, women ruled Japan. What changed?
Conservative and patriarchal Japan excludes women -- who make up 13 of the 18 members of the royal family -- from taking the throne. But this wasn't always the case.
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2/13/19
What a Japanese-American soldier’s thirty-year secret can teach us about race, war, and loyalty
by Sandra Vea
Interpreters with the Military Intelligence Service (MIS) during WW2 were credited for shortening the war in the South Pacific by two years. Yet, they had to keep their service secret for 30 years.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
11-30-18
'Comfort women': anger as Japan paper alters description of WWII terms
Change prompts concern that country’s media is trying to rewrite wartime history under rightwing pressure.
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SOURCE: NYT
11-29-18
South Korean Court Orders Mitsubishi of Japan to Pay for Forced Wartime Labor
The top court upheld a lower-court ruling that ordered Mitsubishi to pay each of five women 100 million won to 150 million won, or about $89,000 to $133,000.
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SOURCE: NYT
11-21-18
South Korea Signals End to ‘Final’ Deal With Japan Over Wartime Sex Slaves
The deal has been deeply unpopular among South Koreans, including some of the surviving victims, who say it fell short of official reparations and a declaration of legal responsibility on Japan’s part.
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11/20/18
Trump Has Achieved the Nearly Impossible: He's Brought China and Japan Together
by Tom Clifford
How he did it.
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SOURCE: CNN
10-4-18
San Francisco Japanese sister-city cuts its ties over comfort women statue
The mayor of Osaka objects to the statue, which memorializes the Korean women exploited by Japanese soldiers in the thirties and forties.
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SOURCE: NYT
8/25/18
Aide’s Diary Suggests Hirohito Agonized Over His War Responsibility
In old age Hirohito blamed himself for the war.
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8/5/18
What I Found When I Visited Japan’s Hiroshima Memorial
by Fred Pearce
“It seemed to me that Japan could contemplate the bombing with stoicism and dignity. The defeat, however, was too much.”
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SOURCE: NYT
5-15-18
A Chinese Town’s Deep Bonds With Japan Bring Wealth and Hatred
Fangzheng has close ties to Japan going back to the days of Japanese imperial control in this part of China. Now it's a target of nationalist ire.
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SOURCE: NHK World
5-8-18
Scrolls found inside statue of Buddha in Nara
Officials from the Nara National Museum conducted a scientific probe of the 73-centimeter-high piece using a CT scanner. They discovered a hollow space stretching from top to bottom.
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