Banyan: History wars Oct 17, 2009
When America s Congress called on Japan in 2007 to apologise for the comfort-women system, Ichiro Ozawa of the DPJ, now the party s secretary-general, threatened a Diet resolution damning the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. His demeaning of the comfort women was grotesque but symptomatic: even today, many Japanese believe the atomic horror washed away any guilt for devastation in other parts of Asia. (The Economist)
Get-Cheney Squad Sep 8, 2009
In the Tokyo firestorm of February 1945, the Dresden raid in March, and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August, we killed grandparents, mothers, fathers, wives, sisters, daughters and sons of the enemy in the scores of thousands on each of those days. Why is Barack Obama allowing these prosecutions to proceed. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
Thousands of snags remain from hurricanes Aug 29, 2009
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Cracking Khalid Aug 28, 2009
In the Tokyo firestorm of February 1945, the Dresden raid in March, and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August, we killed grandparents, mothers, fathers, wives, sisters, daughters and sons of the enemy in the scores of thousands on each of those days. Can it be that the same United States that honored Col. Paul Tibbets and put his Enola Gay, which dropped the bomb on Hiroshima, on display in its Air and Space Museum is going to prosecute a CIA agent for faking an execution and... (The American Conservative)
Survivors mark anniversaryof Hiroshima, Nagasaki Aug 6, 2009
Nigahisa was one of two atomic bomb survivors, known as Hibakusha, who shared their stories last night at the commemoration of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. More than 65 people attended the annual event at the Institute for Advanced Study, sponsored by the Princeton-based Coalition for Peace Action and the Fellowship In Prayer. (NJ.com -- Times)
* Doubts grow in Japan over US nuclear umbrella May 27, 2009
After the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, the Japanese experienced a deep-seated nuclear allergy. That and the threat from the Soviet Union during the Cold War kept Japan huddled under the US nuclear umbrella. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
