Ghosn Prosecutors Double Down
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on December 24, 2018.
Tag Archives: Pacific War (1937-1945)
US Military Control of Tokyo’s Airspace
Due to agreements made between Japan and the United States at the end of World War II, the US military controls the majority of the airspace over Tokyo.
Yoshito Hori and the Rightwing Turn of the Japan Times
The Japan Times served for decades as the leading newspaper for the nation’s foreign community, but now it has been taken over by rightwing elements close to the Abe regime.
The Fall of Carlos Ghosn
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on November 25, 2018.
Diet Extension to Push Immigration Bill
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on November 15, 2018.
The Campaign to Overwrite the Comfort Women Past
In 1993, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yohei Kono made the most full-throated admission and apology acknowledging that Japan had coerced women across Asia into being sex slaves—euphemistically referred to as “Comfort Women”—for the Japanese military during the Pacific War. More recently, however, conservative politicians such as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Osaka Mayor Hirofumi Yoshimura have engaged in a campaign that is less about carving out a path toward reconciliation than to overwrite memories of an unsavory past.
All-Okinawa Movement Wins in Naha
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on October 21, 2018.
Abe Regime Dismisses Democratic Verdict in Okinawa
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on October 7, 2018.
UN Committee Urges Abe Government to Address Comfort Women Issue
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) advised the government of Japan to take a more active stance towards the Comfort Women matter. The UN report was published on August 30, and it called for a “lasting solution” based on “a victim-centered approach.”
North Korea is “Nuclear Weapons State”—Wait. What?
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on February 1, 2018.
