japandailypress.com: Nariaki Nakayama, a lawmaker of the Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party) from the Japan’s Lower House, has again put to question the reality of South Korean “comfort women” – a term that has come to describe the over 200,000 women recorded in history as being recruited by the Japanese Imperial Army in the Second World War – [...]
solomontimes.com: In this sense, this was the front line of the Japanese war machine in WWII, where forces collided head-on with the United States military might. The logical question is, why would the Japanese bring copious amounts of gold – allegedly acquired from China and all the other territories they conquered in Asia – with them to the Solomon Islands [...]
Daily Mail: An outspoken Japanese politician apologized Monday for saying U.S. troops should patronize adult entertainment businesses as a way to reduce sex crimes, but defended another inflammatory remark about Japan’s use of sex slaves before and during World War II. Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto, co-leader of an emerging nationalist party, said his remarks two weeks ago rose from a [...]
A veteran from the Japanese military of World War II spoke out about his experiences during the war, talking about the injustices that the comfort women, or those who were forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese military, had to endure in the brothels catering to soldiers. He came out with this statement after all the controversy over Osaka Mayor [...]
The Telegraph: An outspoken nationalist mayor said the Japanese military’s forced prostitution of Asian women before and during World War II was necessary to “maintain discipline” in the ranks and provide rest for soldiers who risked their lives in battle. The comments are already raising ire in neighbouring countries that bore the brunt of Japan’s wartime aggression and that [...]
Daily Mail: It was known, for good reason, as the Death Railway. In 1942, after the fall of Singapore, the Japanese army ordered the construction of a jungle railroad from Bangkok to Rangoon to support its assault on India. Almost 260 miles of track were built by a forced labour workforce consisting of 250,000 local men and 60,000 Allied prisoners [...]
Telegraph: The two victories over the Japanese, which took place in the same region of north east India over the same period in 1944, were voted the winner of a contest run by the National Army Museum to identify “Britain’s Greatest Battle”. Taken as a single victory, Imphal-Kohima was on a shortlist of five battles which topped a public poll [...]
The year was 1943. Phukon Chandra Rabha had a quiet life in his village Bisonigaon in Assam’s Lakhimpur district. Son of Sambaru Ram Rabha and Ratibari Rabhani, he didn’t want to be a farmer like his father. Instead, he went to the front. Rabha enlisted as a sepoy in the then British Indian Army and was assigned to the newly [...]
Operation THURSDAY began on March 5, 1944, when the first C-47 launched from India towing two overloaded gliders filled with Wingate’s troops, equipment, and supplies. A total of 26 transports towing gliders comprised the first wave. The gliders, carrying from 1,000 to 2,000 pounds of excess weight, strained the C-47 tow planes and ropes and caused significant problems. With eight [...]
The Japanese Ambassador to South Korea has spoken out against the statue erected across the street from the front of the Japanese Embassy in memorial of those who served as “comfort women,” or sexual slaves, to the Imperial Army during World War II. Ambassador Koro Bessho says that he sees the monument in the form of a young woman sitting [...]
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