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...screenplay for Sleepless in Seattle, which starred Hanks) sent him the two-volume, 1,882-page Library of America Reporting World War II: American Journalism (1938 to 1946) as a gift. Hanks grew intensely interested in all things related to the Pacific campaign - not necessarily the big names like Tojo or Ernest King, but the 3rd Marine Division, which was ambushed by snipers at Guam, or the intricacies of Operation Detachment at Iwo Jima. Print journalists like Robert Sherrod (on Tarawa) and Ted Nakashima (on U.S.-Japanese concentration camps) were eye-openers. "I went on a reading rampage," he recalls...
...Japan did not fight a war of aggression. It fought in self-defense.' YUKO TOJO, 68-year-old granddaughter of Japanese General and former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo. General Tojo ordered the World War II attack on Pearl Harbor and was later executed for war crimes; his granddaughter is campaigning for a seat in the Japanese parliament as a far-right candidate...
...Japan is virtually split over the issue, although it is slowly turning against the shrine visits. That change is in part due to revelations published last month that Emperor Hirohito apparently stopped visiting Yasukuni because 14 Class A war criminals, including WWII-era leader Hideki Tojo, were secretly enshrined there in 1978. There's also evidence that Japan's conservatives may finally be coming to grips with the truth of WWII. This week the Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's largest paper and a traditionally conservative voice, published the conclusion of a yearlong examination of Japan's responsibility for the war. Rejecting...
...other by saying, "See you at Yasukuni." Since 1945, Yasukuni has remained a quiet but potent and enduring symbol for the country's die-hard nationalists. Since 1959, priests at Yasukuni have quietly enshrined more than 1,000 convicted war criminals, not just Class-A criminals such as Hideki Tojo, the wartime Prime Minister, but also hundreds of military men who personally committed atrocities, ordered them to take place, or refrained from stopping them. At the museum next door, memorabilia from kamikaze pilots, the Burma death railway and other examples of Japan's wartime history are displayed in unequivocally celebratory...
...respectively. More than 300,000 Japanese were charged with Class-B and -C war crimes, mostly over prisoner abuse. Twenty-five military and political leaders were convicted of waging war?a Class-A crime against peace?and 14 of those, including wartime Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and six others sentenced to death by the tribunal, are enshrined at Yasukuni...