Second world war
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Japan PM sparks anger with near-identical speeches in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
‘It’s the same every year. He talks gibberish and leaves,’ says one survivor after plagiarism app detects 93% …
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Harry Truman and the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki | Letters
Daniel Snowman interviewed the former US president in 1963 and reveals what he was told. Frank Jackson thinks …
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Hiroshima at 75: bitter row persists over US decision to drop the bomb
Historians and military differ on whether 1945 bombing ended the war and saved countless lives – or was an unc…
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Daughters of the bomb: my reckoning with Hiroshima, 75 years later
On the 75th anniversary of the A-bomb, a Japanese American writer speaks to one of the last living survivors –…
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‘He felt he had to do it’: Truman’s grandson on bombing Hiroshima
Seventy-five years after the US president’s decision opened the nuclear age, Clifton Daniel is still grappling…
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Chinese ambassador to Israel likens coronavirus bans to Holocaust
Dai Yuming apologises after saying entry restrictions on Chinese citizens remind him of ‘darkest days in human…
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My father, the quiet hero: how Japan’s Schindler saved 6,000 Jews
Chiune Sugihara’s son tells how he learned of his father’s rescue mission in Lithuania, which commemorates his…
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Japanese officials helped procure wartime sex slaves, report claims
News agency says diplomatic dispatches contradict claims that so-called ‘comfort women’ worked willinglyThe Ja…
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Japan’s rising sun flag is not a symbol of militarism | Letter
Ohtaka Masato of Japan’s foreign affairs ministry says his country’s flag should not be banned at the 2020 Oly…
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Sidney Rittenberg obituary
American translator who was a senior member of the Chinese Communist party and an adviser to Mao ZedongSidney …
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‘I don’t have much hope’: Koreans search for loved ones who died fighting for Japan
As Tokyo marks the end of war in Pacific, conscripts’ families search for information on where their forebears…
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Strategies for nuclear weapons and waste | Letters
It is essential that Europe does not become the arena for a build-up of nuclear weapons, writes Catherine West…
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Hiroshima remembers – in pictures
Survivors mark 74th anniversary of atomic bombing of city in second world war with one minute’s silence Contin…
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Dutch WWII submarine wrecks disappear from Malaysian seabed
Salvagers have removed HNLMS K XVII and HNLMS O 16 – and remains of 79 crewThe wrecks of two Dutch submarines …