カテゴリー: Second world war
Statue recognising Japan’s sexual slavery of up to 200,000 women in second world war will no longer be erected in AucklandNew Zealand officials rejected on Wednesday an application to install a statue commemorating so-called “comfort women” enslaved by…
Planned statue symbolising the women forced by Japan into sexual slavery during the second world war has raised the ire of Tokyo’s embassyDiplomatic relations between Japan and New Zealand could be jeopardised if a statue symbolising the thousands of w…
US president was meeting with Japanese PM when he said: ‘Who knows better about surprise than Japan?’Middle East crisis – live updatesSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxIt would be funny if it wasn’t so Trumpy….
Half of UK public unaware of contribution made by 2.5m British Asian members of armed forces who served in second world warBritish Asian families are being urged to record the experiences of relatives who fought for Britain for “future generations” as …
Prime minister of Japan who offered a historic public apology for his country’s actions during the second world warTomiichi Murayama, who has died aged 101, served as prime minister of Japan for just over 18 months, from 1994 until 1996, but the brevit…
On 15 August 1945, Emperor Hirohito announced the surrender of Imperial Japan to the Allies in a radio broadcast to the nation. See how the Guardian reported events15 August 1945 Continue reading…
National Army Museum’s Beyond Burma exhibition examines stories of soldiers from Britain’s coloniesThe forgotten story of African and Indian troops who fought in south Asia against Japanese forces during the second world war and who have largely been o…
We must continue to challenge claims that nuclear weapons are a ‘necessity’, says Caroline Lucas, while Gerry Weston says they don’t protect us from Russian aggression and Michael Newman says they didn’t end the second world warPolly Toynbee is right t…
Mayor of Japanese city used the anniversary of US bombing to urge the world to stop armed conflicts, warning nuclear war was ‘looming’ over everyoneTwin cathedral bells rang in unison in Nagasaki for the first time in 80 years on Saturday, commemoratin…
On 80th anniversary of atomic bombing, Kazumi Matsui urges younger people to recognise ‘inhumane’ consequences of nuclear weapons as a deterrentThe mayor of Hiroshima has led calls for the world’s most powerful countries to abandon nuclear deterrence, …
Eighty years on from the destruction of the city, registered survivors of the blast – known as hibakusha – have fallen below 100,000The fires were still burning, and the dead lay where they had fallen, when a 10-year-old Yoshiko Niiyama entered Hiroshi…
This summer will mark 80 years since the attacks stunned the world. Today, every one of the crew members who carried out the bombings is dead. Here, one of the last writers to interview them reopens his files‘It was a beautiful morning. The sun was shi…
Peace activist Takamatsu Gushiken, 71, searches for the remains of people who were killed during the Battle of Okinawa, one of the bloodiest chapters in the second world war. As the US seeks to bolster its military presence on the island, due to its cl…
Peace activist Takamatsu Gushiken, 71, searches for the remains of people who were killed during the Battle of Okinawa, one of the bloodiest chapters in the second world war. As the US seeks to bolster its military presence on the island, due to its cl…
A quarter of Okinawan civilians died – many after being told to kill themselves, or from starvation. But the hunt for their remains is being complicated by some modern-day inhabitants: tens of thousands of US soldiers Continue reading…