カテゴリー: Second world war
‘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 …
Daniel 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…
Historians 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 …
On 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…
Seventy-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…
Dai 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…
Chiune 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. …
News 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…
Ohtaka Masato of Japan’s foreign affairs ministry says his country’s flag should not be banned at the 2020 OlympicsAlexis Dudden’s opinion piece presents an argument on the rising sun flag based on the misunderstanding of Japan’s sincere dealings with …
American translator who was a senior member of the Chinese Communist party and an adviser to Mao ZedongSidney Rittenberg, an American from South Carolina, was one of the few non-Chinese people to become a senior member of the Chinese Communist party. K…
As Tokyo marks the end of war in Pacific, conscripts’ families search for information on where their forebears fellKim Jung-im was three years old when her father, Kim Dong-won, was conscripted into the Japanese imperial army in 1940.He died, aged 23, …
It is essential that Europe does not become the arena for a build-up of nuclear weapons, writes Catherine West MP. It is surely time to bury the Micawber principle, says Professor Neil HyattAs we mark the 74th anniversary of the nuclear attacks on Hiro…
Survivors mark 74th anniversary of atomic bombing of city in second world war with one minute’s silence Continue reading…
Salvagers have removed HNLMS K XVII and HNLMS O 16 – and remains of 79 crewThe wrecks of two Dutch submarines sunk off the Malaysian coast during the second world war have disappeared along with the remains of the 79 men who perished onboard.Researcher…