“Manabisha, a Tokyo-based publishing company, will publish a middle-school history textbook for the first time that will include a passage about so-called comfort women, something that no other textbook currently in use mentions. The book was approved by the education…
“Japan, China and South Korea briefly put aside territorial and historical disputes on Sunday for rare trilateral talks announcing a bid to boost tourism numbers in the three countries to 30 million visitors in five years… The meeting — the first…
“The acting chief of an expert panel on the World War II anniversary statement to be issued by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe this summer said Friday it need not include the expressions “colonial rule and aggression” and “apology” used in…
“In the 1980s, the Smithsonian began restoring the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. By then it was a complete mess. Over the years it had been disassembled, spread across multiple buildings, birds had nested…
“South Korea and Japan will next week hold their first high-level security talks in more than five years, Seoul said today, despite simmering tensions over territorial and other historical disputes.”
“The United States and Japan, bitter enemies in World War II more than 70 years ago, both expressed support on Thursday for the Philippines and regional security in the Pacific as recently published images showed Chinese reclamation activities in the…
“Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko are due to arrive in Peleliu on April 9. The couple will lay flowers before monuments dedicated to both the Japanese and American war dead. The visit is the imperial couple’s “pilgrimage” to mark the…
“Katsuya Okada, head of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan, has cautioned China not to be overly demanding on the content of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s statement this summer to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World…
“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…
“An official policy document issued annually by the Foreign Ministry expresses “deep reflection” over Japan’s behavior in World War II while highlighting its international contributions ever since. China and South Korea were quick to criticize references to their two nations in…
“Two weeks ago, Japan commissioned its largest naval vessel since the end of World War II. Sleek and with the clean lines of a ship designed for stealth, JS Izumo pulled into Yokosuka Naval Base, her new home port, and…
“About two-thirds of Americans trust Japan a great deal or a fair amount and three-quarters of Japanese say they trust the United States, according to a new Pew Research Center survey…” And more polling results on mutual perceptions.
“I am concerned the history of the Yamato may have been romanticized despite 3,000 people dying on the battleship. We must never again go to war,” added Arahori, who traveled to the ceremony from Wakayama Prefecture.
“Our country’s textbook screening is carried out impartially and neutrally, based on professional and academic deliberations,” Suga told a news conference. “Since our country’s stance on Takeshima and history recognition have been consistent, we responded to (South Korea) by saying we…
“Japan is still distorting historical facts around the territory this year, the 50th anniversary of the normalized ties between Korea and Japan. If Japan really wanted to improve the bilateral relationship, it shouldn`t have done this. Against this backdrop, the…
“China urged Japan on Tuesday to properly educate its youth, joining South Korea in condemning Japan’s approval of textbooks its neighbors say distort history by claiming disputed islands.”
“If the war had been prolonged for half a year, all Japanese immigrants would have starved to death,” Zensho Kinjo says of the situation faced by Japanese settlers in Palau toward the end of World War II in 1945. Kinjo, 92,…
“The education ministry on Monday announced the results of its latest textbook screenings and the content of new textbooks to be used in middle schools from the next academic year. All social studies textbooks for middle school students will include descriptions…
“Seventy percent of South Koreans want President Park Geun-hye and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to hold a one-on-one meeting, a local opinion poll showed Thursday… Among those calling for improved ties, 41 percent cited the need to resolve historical issues, followed…
“The elegant flowers have long been associated with Japanese culture and aesthetics, a graceful metaphor for the ephemeral nature of life. More than a century ago, Japanese authorities gave Washington 3000 cherry trees to brighten up the city’s swampy Tidal…
“The head of a history think-tank has criticized Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for referring to women forced by his nation’s military into sexual slavery before and during World War II as victims of “human trafficking.” … “It is absolutely unacceptable…
“A university museum in Japan has broken a seven-decade taboo on discussing the dissection of live US prisoners of war by medical personnel towards the end of the Second World War.”
“Palau had been forgotten by Japan,” said Minoru Ueki, 84, a former Palau ambassador to Japan. He was born in 1931 on Koror Island, Palau, to a Japanese father and Palauan mother during the Japanese mandate. He attended the same national…
“A Japanese daily is reporting that the country’s parliament is unlikely to pass a resolution repenting for Japan’s past aggressions on the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two. A Japanese official told the Mainichi Shimbun that lawmakers…