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...
The Occupation brainwashed us through the “War Guilt Information Program.” Now, the Japanese should feel ashamed when the world regards us as a “dependency” of the...
Many South Koreans fail to comprehend why President Moon was ignored by Japan. The explanation is simple.
Would Japan be in a different place with China and South Korea had the Tokyo Trial addressed the responsibility of those with the authority to have...
The Tokyo Trial challenges everything about how justice is supposed to be rendered under the rule of law. These flaws contributed heavily to the numerous lingering...
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...
The Japanese comfort women program has become a dominant symbol of an era encompassing the Asia-Pacific War. Koreans have aggressively highlighted the issue by having...
In 1853 Commodore Perry visited Japan with a complaint. Japan was not a great power which threatened the U.S. Navy, but as the ranges of...
The generation that fought the Asia-Pacific War is dying off. With each passing month, obituaries inform that the final soldier from a battalion, division or...
Every year on August 6, people gather at Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Park in the morning to observe the anniversary of the first atomic bomb attack. This...
On anniversaries of the defeat of Japan in the late 1980s, it was commonly quipped that the war was over and Germany and Japan had...
Who could have predicted that Japan’s Constitution would be marking its 73rd anniversary, just as the nation is in the midst of a crisis...