Some in the West find it convenient to photoshop the Russians out of WWII while skewing the data to make the Japanese look bad. A look...
Grossly exaggerated claims concerning the Nanjing Massacre and comfort woman controversies are faltering, and not due to lack of evidence alone.
Elon Musk sent out a tweet provoking a renewed conversation. Using his reasoning, all of humankind is at risk. Now let’s brainstorm some possible solutions.
The Columbia University historian draws on the records in a fascinating read tackling common beliefs about POWs in WWII.
April 25 is a date of profound significance for the Australian and New Zealand nations, but one that shares strong interconnections with both Turkey and Japan.
War leaves its mark, but for how many generations can racism be excused? The timing of Facebook’s policy banning the use of a pejorative term seems...
They depict Japanese brutality as being in a league of its own, thus diminishing the crimes of the West and characterizing the Western nations as the...
Democracy was at work in Japan in the late 19th century, long before World War II and the postwar Occupation.
There are two critical misperceptions: that Japan transitioned from dictatorship to U.S.-gifted democracy, and that it was never an ally of the West prior to its...
High profile hafu athletes such as Osaka, Hachimura, and sprinter Abdul Hakim Sani Brown, are the public faces, but the more substantive force of this change...
There was a third way to end the war — the same manner as the vast majority of conflicts concluded throughout history: with a negotiated peace.
More than a century ago, at the Paris Peace Conference, the Japanese sought a racial equality clause to be included in the Treaty of Versailles. Australia...