Word: pacificism
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While Americans were grieving and trying to a make sense of Monday?s massacre at Virginia Tech, on the other side of the Pacific, South Koreans were shaking their heads in disbelief that one of their own could unleash the worst massacre in U.S history.
The change began with Abe's own surprise trip to Beijing last October, which established lines of communication that had been all but ruined by former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's repeated trips to the Yasukuni Shrine, a Shinto memorial to Japan's war dead viewed by many nations as...
Nor is the museum keeping such sentiments under wraps: Yushukan is one of the few museums in Japan that translates its impressive Japanese-language exhibits into English. Sample one of the opening epigrams, by the 8th century poet Otomo no Yakamochi: "We shall die in the sea / we shall die...
An earthquake of magnitude 8.1 hit the Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean in the early morning of April 2. More than 20 people have been reported killed in the resulting tsunami. Following is an account provided to TIME via phone from the South Pacific nation.
The Harvard women’s tennis team traveled to California this past week, winning one match and losing two. The Crimson improved its record to 2-11 after hard-fought matches against Sacramento State, UC Davis, and Pacific.Harvard lost to 51st-ranked Sacramento State on Saturday, falling just short...