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March 29, 2015 – Editorial: “Wisdom gained from World War II is crumbling” (Boston Globe)

  • April 3, 2015
  • Asia-Pacific

“The passage of time is supposed to dull even the most vicious hatreds. One of the most disturbing trends in recent geopolitics is that, instead, it seems to be sharpening them…”

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March 28, 2015 – “China’s latest power play comes at the expense of America” (The Week)

  • April 3, 2015
  • Asia-Pacific

“”Historians may record March 2015 as the moment when China’s checkbook diplomacy came of age,” said Paul Taylor and William James at Reuters. Beijing has spent several years trying to persuade Western nations to join its Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB),…

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March 27, 2015 – “Government looks to end taboo on military research” (University World News)

  • April 3, 2015
  • Asia-Pacific

“Japan’s military is prying open long-closed doors at university research labs, boosting Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s US-backed effort to cast off some of the country’s pacifist constraints, write Eric Pfanner and Chieko Tsuneoka for The Wall Street Journal.”

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March 27, 2015 – “Japan’s Shinzo Abe describes alliance with U.S. ‘unshakable'” (UPI)

  • April 3, 2015
  • Asia-Pacific

“Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he holds the “fullest confidence” in President Obama and the U.S.-Japan alliance remains “unshakable,” providing a prelude to his state visit to Washington in April.”

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March 27, 2015 – “Ruling Supports Glendale in Dispute Over Monument” (Rafu Shimpo)

  • April 3, 2015
  • Memorials & Exhibitions

“A judge has issued a tentative ruling in support of the City of Glendale, which has been sued for placing a “comfort women” monument in Central Park.”

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March 26, 2015 – “U.S. has ‘solid’ understanding of Seoul-Tokyo shared history: Korean envoy” (Yonhap News)

  • April 3, 2015
  • Asia-Pacific

“The U.S. government, Congress and academics have a very “solid” consensus that Japan should stop its attempts to gloss over its wartime wrongdoings, namely the issue of sex slavery, the South Korean ambassador to Washington said Thursday.”

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March 23, 2015 – “Japan caught off-guard by Chinese PR blitz in U.S. over Senkaku Islands” (Asahi)

  • March 25, 2015
  • Asia-Pacific

“Chinese Embassy officials in the United States went on a phone call frenzy in November to present their spin on a planned joint statement agreed upon just hours earlier concerning Japan-China relations.”

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March 22, 2015 – “Pragmatism rules in China relations: Australia is not being swept up by America’s anxious agitation at China’s rise” (Financial Review)

  • March 25, 2015
  • Asia-Pacific

“The US may want to edge Australia into a trilateral arrangement to support Japan in any showdown with China. Of course, this may not be a considered US strategy, or a particularly high priority. It should nonetheless be a goal…

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March 21, 2015 – “U.S. senators call for strategy to halt China land-reclamation projects” (Japan Times)

  • March 25, 2015
  • Asia-Pacific

“A bipartisan group of influential U.S. senators has called on the government to draw up a strategy aimed at halting China’s “unilateral” acts to assert control over disputed islands in the South China Sea, including land reclamation projects.”

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March 21, 2015 – “U.S. reps put pressure on Japan’s Abe on history” (Korea Joongang Daily)

  • March 25, 2015
  • Asia-Pacific

“In advance of a visit to Washington by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, U.S. lawmakers are pushing Japan to set straight its approach to wartime history, which has frozen relations with neighboring Asian countries.”

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March 21, 2015 – “Japan’s Abe Invited to Address Joint Session of US Congress” (The Diplomat)

  • March 25, 2015
  • Asia-Pacific

“Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been formally invited to address a joint session of Congress when he travels to Washington DC this April, AFP reports.”

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March 20, 2015 – “Maryland Senate adopts ‘comfort women’ resolution” (China Daily)

  • March 25, 2015
  • Asia-Pacific

“A Maryland state Senate joint resolution honoring the “comfort women” in Asia and Pacific Islands during World War II was adopted on Tuesday. The Senate Joint Resolution 3 stated that “the government of Japan, during its colonial and wartime occupation of…

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March 19, 2015 – “Comfort women statue proposal riles group of Japanese Canadians in Burnaby” (Burnaby Now)

  • March 25, 2015
  • Canada

‘Comfort women’ issue a controversy in Canada too: “Tina Rafferty, a Japanese-Canadian resident, spoke with the NOW about the statue. ‘This proposal is against the Canadian tradition of multiculturalism,’ she said. ‘This is a country where people come from all…

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March 20, 2015 – “A Strategy for Japan’s Public Diplomacy in the United States” (The Diplomat)

  • March 25, 2015
  • Asia-Pacific

“Finally, while this may not be a popular topic within the Japanese government, the most productive long-term investment for Japan could be an investment in improving its relations with Korea and China. Public diplomacy programs that foster cultural exchanges among…

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March 19, 2015 – “Rift between US allies Japan and S. Korea weighs on Obama’s Asia policy” (US News)

  • March 25, 2015
  • Asia-Pacific

“The Japan-South Korea rift has complicated U.S. efforts to forge a stronger security alliance against common foe North Korea and to U.S. strategy aimed at countering China’s rise. Japan and South Korea host 80,000 U.S. troops, the backbone of America’s…

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March 19, 2015 – “U.S. veterans, Koreans seek conditions for Japan PM address to Congress” (Reuters)

  • March 25, 2015
  • Asia-Pacific

“An organization for former U.S. prisoners of the Japanese and a Korean-American forum say Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe should only be invited to address the U.S. Congress during an expected visit if he acknowledges Japan’s World War Two past.”

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March 16, 2015 – “Footage captures US air raids on Japan in dying days of WWII” (The Telegraph)

  • March 23, 2015
  • Asia-Pacific

“Rediscovered film shows attacks by US aircraft on Japanese warships, factories and military installations in dying days of WWII”

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March 13, 2015 – “China’s Military Can Beat The US In South China Sea And Diaoyu/Senkaku Island Conflicts: Poll” (International Business Times)

  • March 20, 2015
  • Asia-Pacific

“Public confidence in China’s military is higher than ever. According to a public opinion poll, an overwhelming majority of Chinese citizens think the People’s Liberation Army is capable of facing and beating the United States if it comes to that…

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March 13, 2015 – “Battlefields and bunkers: Exploring Okinawa’s World War II history” (CNN)

  • March 20, 2015
  • Asia-Pacific

“With the exception of the march across the Philippine island of Luzon, the battle of Okinawa was the only major American land campaign in the Pacific during World War II…” -Christopher Dong visits war sites, museums, and memorials in Okinawa.

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March 11, 2015 – Analysis: “Attack on US Envoy in Seoul an Unfortunate Incident” (Eurasia Review)

  • March 18, 2015
  • Asia-Pacific

“During the assault, Kim screamed a slogan in favour of reunifying the divided Korean peninsula, and later shouted his opposition to the joint US-South Korean military drills that began the same week. The annual exercises always trigger a surge in…

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March 8, 2015 – “Former ‘comfort women’ ready to sue Japan in U.S.” (Japan Times)

  • March 12, 2015
  • Asia-Pacific

“A group of women in South Korea and the United States are preparing to sue the Japanese government, claiming their human rights were breached when they were forced to become “comfort women,” those who were forced to provide sex for…

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March 4, 2015 – “U.S. author recounts ‘lecture’ he got about ‘comfort women’ from uninvited Japanese guests” (Japan Times)

  • March 12, 2015
  • Asia-Pacific

Interview of Professor Ziegler with JBC, Feb. 17, 2015: “Next thing I know, I’m sitting in my office just like you and I are sitting here today — the door’s open, I have office hours. I was eating lunch. In pops…

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March 4, 2015 – “U.S. says ‘comfort women’ issue was behind Lee’s 2012 isle visit” (Japan Times)

  • March 12, 2015
  • Asia-Pacific

“The U.S. government believed the “comfort women” issue was behind South Korean President Lee Myung-bak’s August 2012 visit to islets at the heart of a territorial dispute between Japan and South Korea, a U.S. document revealed on Tuesday.”

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March 4, 2015 – “Microsoft Co-Founder Says He Found A Sunken WWII Warship” (Huffington Post)

  • March 11, 2015
  • Asia-Pacific

“Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Paul Allen and his research team have found the wreckage of a massive Japanese World War II battleship off the Philippines near where it sank more than 70 years ago, he said Wednesday. The apparent discovery of…

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