Sad News today that reminds us of an uplifting person who was a champion for all the comfort women under the Japanese during World War II. Jan Ruff – O’Herne died at the age of 96 on Monday August 19, 2019 in Adelaide, Australia. This photo of her as a young woman was taken when […]
We need to commemorate this day and not allow it to fade into a vague memory. I wonder what is happening there today. It will not be the remembrance that the Dutch Navy Community had visualized now he wrecks of the two cruisers are completely gone and of the destroyer largely gone. The sacred war […]
It was already December 8 on the Island of Java in the Dutch East Indies when Japanese bombers and torpedo planes dove down out of the morning sky onto the U.S. Pacific Fleet at rest in Pearl Harbor. I was not yet 8 years old then and it happened 75 years ago but I still […]
The remains of these 3 Dutch ships are from the Battle of the Java Sea which was fought on February 27, 1942 between a hastily assembled battle group of Dutch, British, American and Australian ships led by the Dutch Admiral Karel Doorman and the overwhelming Japanese fleet steaming towards the Island of Java. It was […]
World War II ended on September 2, 1945 as Japan formally surrendered to the Allied Forces by signing the rigid terms of the Articles of Capitulation aboard the USS Missouri anchored in Tokyo Bay. In addition to the United States, the Articles were signed by China, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, Australia, Canada, France, […]
Maryknoll Fr William Grimm, publisher of ucanews.com, based in Tokyo, Japan, posted the following commentary on April 21, 2015 on the background of coming speeches by Shinzo Abe, and I am reposting it with permission. This is an insightful and balanced article covering a touchy subject that will remain in the news from now through […]
