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Academics reject J Mark Ramseyer’s claim women were not forced into sexual slavery during second world warA Harvard University professor has sparked outrage among fellow academics and campaigners after claiming that women forced into sexual slavery by …
Read MoreSpy Princess is based on Noor Inayat Khan, killed in France while working as a British spy in second world warThe story of the daughter of an Indian Sufi mystic, who was killed while a British secret agent fighting with the French resistance in the sec…
Read MoreThe Kazakh American Association has released a letter on social media accusing Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest Borat film of ‘justifying harassment’A group of Kazakh-Americans has demanded that Amazon withdraw Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, Sacha Baron Cohen’s…
Read More3 September 1945: With the signing on the USS Missouri, the second world war is now officially over. Full occupation of Japan is about to beginThe Japanese signed the terms of surrender in the American battleship Missouri early yesterday and the war is…
Read MoreThe royal family leads the UK’s commemorations on the 75th anniversary of VJ Day – the day the second world war ended with Japan’s surrender.Prince Charles led a two-minute silence at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire, as part of a servi…
Read MoreVJ Day was declared when emperor Hirohito ordered his people to stop fighting in second world warThe 75th anniversary of VJ Day – the victory over Japan which signalled the very end of the second world war – has been commemorated with a series of event…
Read MoreBritish soldier Bill Norways was captured by the Japanese after the fall of Singapore and forced to work on the infamous Thai-Burma railway. During his time as a PoW he created sketches and artworks under appalling conditions• Families of British priso…
Read More‘It’s the same every year. He talks gibberish and leaves,’ says one survivor after plagiarism app detects 93% match in speeches given days apartSurvivors of the atomic bombings of 75 years ago have accused Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, of making …
Read MoreDaniel Snowman interviewed the former US president in 1963 and reveals what he was told. Frank Jackson thinks the bombing of Nagasaki was even more of a war crimeClifton Daniel is right about his grandfather’s bombing of Hiroshima (‘He felt he had to d…
Read MoreHistorians and military differ on whether 1945 bombing ended the war and saved countless lives – or was an unconscionable act of brutalitySeventy-five years after it dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the Enola Gay stands, restored and gleaming, as …
Read MoreOn the 75th anniversary of the A-bomb, a Japanese American writer speaks to one of the last living survivors – and traces connections from Malcolm X to the fight to end nuclear warI keep a red file folder, its edges faded from nearly three decades of e…
Read MoreSeventy-five years after the US president’s decision opened the nuclear age, Clifton Daniel is still grappling with his legacyTo many Americans, he was the commander-in-chief who had the mettle to end the second world war quickly and save countless liv…
Read MoreDai Yuming apologises after saying entry restrictions on Chinese citizens remind him of ‘darkest days in human history’China’s acting ambassador to Israel has apologised after likening the closures of several national borders to Chinese citizens to the…
Read MoreChiune Sugihara’s son tells how he learned of his father’s rescue mission in Lithuania, which commemorates his achievements this yearAs a child in Japan in the 1950s and 60s, Nobuki Sugihara never knew his father had saved thousands of lives. Few did. …
Read MoreNews agency says diplomatic dispatches contradict claims that so-called ‘comfort women’ worked willinglyThe Japanese imperial army asked the government to provide one wartime sex slave for every 70 soldiers serving in China in the late 1930s, according…
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