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...AMERICANS have of dovish former Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa is unfortunate: it's of him cradling a flu-stricken George H.W. Bush in 1992 after the President vomited on him during a dinner. Yet the former Foreign Minister advised policymakers in boosting Japan's economy after World War II; helped plan a bailout of Japan's failed banking system in the '90s; and as the country's leader for two years, sought to restore ties with wartime enemies in Asia. In 1992 he was the first Japanese PM to acknowledge the role of Japanese soldiers in forcing Asian women...
...NICKNAME, THE GALLOPing Ghost, recalled comic-book superheroes--a fitting image for one of the greatest naval commanders of World War II. As the daring skipper of the U.S.S. Barb, Rear Admiral Eugene Fluckey led missions that even his jaded bosses called "epic": nighttime raids that downed a stunning 29 Japanese ships, among them an aircraft carrier, destroyer and cruiser. Credited with destroying more tonnage than any other skipper, Fluckey was awarded the Medal of Honor and four Navy Crosses...
...traditions that originated from a desire to shock the society that had shunned them. Mongrel Mobsters bark like dogs to show appreciation or enthusiasm, and use their hands to make the silhouette of a bulldog, the totem in the middle of their patch. Some wear German World War II helmets and use the expression Sieg Heil! as a mark of approval. Black Power members, who claim closer ties to Maori culture, always wear blue, salute each other with a clenched fist and like to cry "Yo, f___in' yo!" Researchers believe the gangs were formed when Maori people moved into...
...native son of Nagasaki, Fumio Kyuma really should have known better. On June 30, Japan's defense minister gave a speech on World War II at a university outside of Tokyo, where he told students that Japan could have easily ended up divided like its wartime ally Germany had the Soviet Union decided to invade Tokyo's defenseless northern island of Hokkaido in the closing weeks of the war. What stopped the Russians, Kyuma argued, was the American atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. "I understand that the bombings brought the war to its end," said Kyuma. "I think...
Cervellera says that Beijing's response could have been much more hostile, as it was in 2000 when Pope John Paul II canonized several Catholic Chinese martyrs. The reaction this time, instead, was pro forma. Still, it's impossible to know Beijing's next moves on the questions of diplomatic relations with the Vatican, and religious freedom for Catholics - not even the Chinese know. "We cannot solve this problem," he said. "The problem is inside the Chinese Communist party, which is undergoing a radical transition...