April 8, 2015 – “‘No consensus’ in Japan about wartime past” (DW)

In a DW interview, Ian Buruma, Professor of Human Rights and Journalism in the US, and author of several books including “Year Zero: A History of 1945 ,” talks about why views on World War II are so polarized in Japan, and argues that history has become part of a debate on the country’s postwar constitutional order.”