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...Asia and in particular of Korea, where the worst abuses occurred, remains relatively unexplored. While conspiracy theories of hidden troves of gold looted by the Japanese abound, there has been little serious research into the issue of stolen art and artifacts. "It's a wide open area," says John Dower, a professor of history at M.I.T. and author of Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II. "This one got truly buried...
...respect first, notably in Steven Spielberg's 1998 Saving Private Ryan, but the war in the Pacific and its aftermath is getting its own. In addition to Pearl Harbor, we have seen two recent Pulitzer prize-winning histories?Herbert P. Bix's biography of Hirohito and John W. Dower's magnificent analysis of Japan's postwar reconstruction. And in recent weeks, Ghost Soldiers, a reconstruction of a daring 1945 raid to free the last survivors of the Bataan death march from their prisoner-of-war camp, has raced up the best-seller lists. (Ghost Soldiers is a useful corrective...
...DIED. MICHIKO NAMIKI, 79, Japanese singer whose Apple Song was a major hit following WWII; in Tokyo. As historian John Dower wrote: "That spirits were lifted by a peppy jingle about something edible was hardly surprising at a time when food was an overriding concern...
...have the last laugh on his unseen tormentor, who will gain the family fortune only if Fairfax dies a bachelor. The Lieutenant of the Tower (David Magill), another Fairfax fan, agrees to find him a woman who will marry him before his execution in exchange for a hundred crown dower. The woman in question is is Elsie Maynard (Michelle French), a traveling minstrelette who does the country fair circuit with jestering partner Jack Point (Peter F. Miller). Point hopes someday to marry Elsie, but agrees to the scheme after hearing the clink of the hundred crowns...
...bunch of as were invited to join a fraternity after we moved into Lowell House," says Dower "But we didn't--we felt we had an obligation to make the House system work...