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 […]
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SPEECHES BY SHINZO ABE ARE NOT LIKELY TO BE AS REMORSEFUL AS VICTIM NATIONS WOULD LIKE
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 […]
WILL THEY EVER LEARN? – The comfort women issue
The subject of the use of “comfort women” by the Japanese military during World War II has popped up in the news repeatedly starting in 2007 when Shinzo Abe, the Japanese Prime Minister at that time, denied that the Japanese military had forced women into sexual slavery during World War II in an orchestrated way. […]