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DIED. SHIRO AZUMA, 93, Japanese World War II veteran who was one of the few ex-soldiers to admit to having participated in the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, in which as many as 300,000 Chinese were killed; in Kyoto. In his diary, published in 1987 as My Nanking Platoon, Azuma...
During Japan's time as a colonial power, the shrine was a focal point of the country's native religion, used by political leaders to help justify national conquests. They proclaimed that the souls of those who sacrificed their lives at war for Japan and its Emperor would live forever...
Our look back at the bright atomic blasts and dark mushroom clouds over Hiroshima and Nagasaki 60 years ago stirred undying memories, renewed debate about the conduct of the war and inspired a frail hope that humanity may survive its ongoing relationship with nuclear weapons Thank you for the report...
I do not understand why everyone shows so much sympathy for the Japanese. Has the world forgotten the millions of Chinese who were killed and tortured by the Japanese during their pre-World War II invasion of China? The crimes committed by the Japanese, especially after the fall of Nanking...
DIED. IRIS CHANG, 36, historian whose landmark 1997 best seller The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II chronicled the grisly rape, torture and murder of hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians by Japanese soldiers in the former Chinese capital in the late 1930s; a suicide; near...