Correction: Japan-Wartime Apology story
Source: Boston.com
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-05-31 15:07:10 -0700 | disasters-news
In a story May 8 about the use of sex slaves during World War II, The Associated Press reported erroneously that then-Prime Minister Yohei Kono issued a 1993 statement expressing remorse for suffering caused to sexual slaves of Japanese troops....
NC corrects Revolutionary War marker
Source: HNN
Date :: Japan | updated 2013-05-29 12:52:26 -0700 | disasters-news
After nearly 75 years, a piece of local Revolutionary War history has been rewritten. On Friday, a state historical marker indicating a decisive Revolutionary War battleground in Alamance County was changed to reflect more accurate information unearthed by two historians....
Environmentalism and beauty
Source: War In Context
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-05-29 11:06:33 -0700 | disasters-news
In Ueno Park in Tokyo, falling blossoms settle over the sleeping salarymen, recumbent on tarpaulins with traffic masks yanked down around their necks. Curtains of petals draw open and closed in the wind around huddled teenagers. The flowers land on...
German-made camera used to take iconic Times Square kiss picture at the end of Second World War ...
Source: Mail Online UK
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-05-28 12:37:25 -0700 | disasters-news
28 May 2013 1 shares 0 View comments The German-made camera that was used to take one of the most iconic pictures of the 20th century has sold for almost $150,000 at auction. Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt used the Leica Illa...
Hunt for lost First World War submarines
Source: HNN
Date :: Japan | updated 2013-05-28 09:58:13 -0700 | disasters-news
Explorers are launching a new project to locate dozens of British and German submarines which sank off the coast of England during the First World War, as part of a major new study to mark the centenary of the conflict...Preliminary...
USAF fighter crashed into the ocean off the coast of Okinawa
Posted by: mashfaq90
Okinawa :: Japan | updated 2013-05-29 05:24:26 -0700 | disasters-news
Fighter aircraft of the Air Force United States fell into the ocean off the coast of Japan. As noted, the incident took place early on the morning of Tuesday, May 28. F-15 fighter crashed into the sea about 115 kilometers...
US F-15 fighter crashes off the southern Japan island of Okinawa.
Posted by: atifji75
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-05-30 05:58:58 -0700 | disasters-news
TOKYO: US F-15 fighter crashes off the southern Japan island of Okinawa. According to the news A U.S Air Force F-15 fighter crashed after the aircraft developed problems in flight. The pilot ejected before the plane crashed. The chief spokesperson...
Japan mayor apologizes to U.S., denies wrong words on "comfort women"
Posted by: anonymous
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-06-04 23:27:24 -0700 | disasters-news
Japan's Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto on Monday apologized to the United States for improper remarks on suggesting U.S. servicemen to "use of legal adult entertainment", but rejected to retract his wrong words about so-called "comfort women" in wartime. Osaka Mayor...
Japanese Politician Tries to Calm Furor Over Comments on Wartime Brothels
Source: The New York Times
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-05-27 18:06:28 -0700 | disasters-news
Seeking to quell an uproar over recent suggestions that sexual slavery was a necessary evil in Japan's imperial past, a populist party leader said Monday that his comments were not meant to justify wartime brothels or deny the women's suffering...
History shows one man's rape is another's wooing
Source: Japan Times
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-05-25 08:58:20 -0700 | disasters-news
The evolution of political thought in this relatively isolated island nation during the period in question is unique to the point of being somewhat freakish...The judgment is historian Hiroshi Watanabe's in A History of Japanese Political Thought, 1600-1901, his 2010...
In Japan, there was a release of radiation into the atmosphere
Posted by: rsa76
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-05-28 02:53:20 -0700 | disasters-news
In the laboratory, the Japanese company Japan Atomic Power leaked radiation. Initially, members of the organization argued that the spread of radiation was not, but then confirmed that part of the dangerous particles is accidentally spilled into the atmosphere. Representatives...
Japan protests S. Korean daily's A-bomb op-ed
Source: China Post
Nagasaki :: Japan | updated 2013-05-23 11:59:29 -0700 | disasters-news
Japan on Thursday accused a South Korean newspaper of dishonorable behavior for publishing an editorial suggesting the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were divine punishment. The editorial in the Korean and English versions of the Joongang Ilbo daily on...
Mary C. Curtis: Is North Carolina Moving Backward on Civil Rights?
Source: HNN
Date :: Japan | updated 2013-05-23 11:48:16 -0700 | disasters-news
Curtis, an award-winning multimedia journalist in Charlotte, N.C., has worked at The New York Times, Charlotte Observer and as national correspondent for Politics Daily. North Carolina has never had a problem bragging about its progressive history. In 1960, when George...
Japan's peace pledge under attack
Source: Open Democracy
Fukushima :: Japan | updated 2013-05-23 21:18:52 -0700 | disasters-news
Japan adopted its war-renouncing constitution following World War II, with Article 9 as a promise to itself and a pledge to the world to never repeat its mistakes. The debate provoked by Prime Minister Abe Shinzo over amending this famous...
PM on UPA's fourth anniversary: We have taken India forward
Source: Rediff
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-05-22 08:25:43 -0700 | disasters-news
We present verbatim Prime Minister Manmohan Singh [ Images ]'s speech on the fourth anniversary of UPA II government, ahead of the dinner organised by the government to celebrate its achievements...T his Report to the People is the last before...
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