August 6, 2015 – Hiroshima marks 70 years since atomic bomb (BBC)
A ceremony, attended by PM Shinzo Abe, was held at Hiroshima’s memorial park before thousands of lanterns are released on the city’s Motoyasu river.
April 11, 2015 – “The Enola Gay: A Minor Mystery, Solved!” (NYTimes)
“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…
April 7 , 2015 – “Families of crewmen killed in Yamato sinking call for peace on 70th anniversary” (Asahi)
“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.
March 30, 2015 – “No room for ‘snubbed’ Japanese war veteran at Iwo Jima memorial service” (The Guardian)
“One of only a handful of Japanese veterans who survived the battle of Iwo Jima – one of the bloodiest campaigns of the Pacific war – spent a recent memorial service on the island alongside US veterans after being told…
March 30, 2015 – “Okinawa: Remembering all the dead” (Maryland Reporter)
“In 1990, when Ota was first elected governor of Okinawa, he began pushing for a memorial to Okinawa’s war dead. “I decided that we inscribe the names forever, since that is the only proof that they existed in this world. All…
March 29, 2015 – “Osamu Tezuka on war and peace” (Yomiuri)
“Tezuka (1928-1989) experienced a large-scale air raid in Osaka when he was working at a factory as a member of the students labor corps and was running about to escape dropping firebombs. On the night of Aug. 15, 1945, after…
March 27, 2015 – “Ruling Supports Glendale in Dispute Over Monument” (Rafu Shimpo)
“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.”
March 22, 2015 – “Sailing into Starvation Island: 70 years after the end of World War II, Peace Boat visits Guadalcanal” (National Geographic)
“Our generation, people over 60, often heard of Guadalcanal,” said Nakagawa Harumi from Nagoya who had the seat next to mine in our minibus. He placed his hand over his chest and continued in careful English, “Just being here, I…
March 20, 2015 – “Seoul house becomes museum highlighting the plight of second world war ‘comfort women'” (Dezeen)
“Corralled in an empty room, visitors observe a moment of silence before being guided through four areas with the themes memory, remembrance, healing and recording.”
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