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Efforts To Continue Commemorating Comfort Women From Various Asian Countries

  • September 7, 2025
  • Asia-Pacific

As the number of surviving comfort women decreases, various projects are ongoing to continue their legacies. Various Asian countries have created TV documentaries and historical book to show what realities comfort women faced. Moreover, China has created its first comfort…

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‘The Narrow Road to Deep North’ – TV Series Depicting The Burma Front

  • August 5, 2025
  • Asia-Pacific

New TV series ‘The Narrow Road to Deep North” portrays harrowing journey of Allied prisoner of war on Burma-Thailand railway. The series adapted Richard Flanagan’s novel about his time as Australian army doctor that are rich in portraying wartime horrors…

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Sept. 24, 2020 — Japanese POW Art in Australia Analyzed for the First Time (The Japan Times)

  • September 24, 2020
  • Asia-Pacific

“Hundreds of works of art created by Japanese prisoners of war and civilian internees detained in Australia and New Zealand during World War II have been studied for the very first time by academics, having been “entirely ignored” by scholars…

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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 18, 2015 – “China Air Force Needs Better Command and Control, Says Australia” (Bloomberg)

  • March 25, 2015
  • Asia-Pacific

“China’s air force needs better central control to avoid miscalculations as territorial tensions rise with Japan over the East China Sea, according to Australia’s air force chief.”

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Feb. 14, 2015 – “Possible subs snub seen as a blow to Japan’s shifting military posture” (The Australian)

  • February 20, 2015
  • Asia-Pacific

“The confusion Tony Abbott has injected into the future submarine issue is undermining Japan’s efforts to sell a more assertive new security policy to the region.”

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