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 […]
SEVENTEEN MONTHS AGO I PUBLISHED A BLOG ABOUT THE DEADLIEST CONVENTIONAL AIR RAID EVER, USING THE NEWLY INVENTED NAPALM BOMBS. AS THE DEAD TOLL OF THIS FIREBOMBING RAID ON TOKYO EXCEEDED THE DEATH TOLL OF EITHER OF THE ATOMIC BOMBS, WE CAN THINK OF IT AS THE DEADLIEST AIR RAID EVER. AND YET THE MEMORY […]
Three months ago, I exchanged e-mails with Priscilla K M regarding the fact that there is very little available in English that deals with the horrific circumstances of the Dutch-Indonesians on Java under the Japanese during WWII that I describe in “with nothing but our lives”. Priscilla is the founder of The Indo Project whose […]
Was the use of atomic bombs justified to achieve victory in WWII in the Pacific on terms satisfactory to the United States? What do you think? SUPPORTERS OF THE USE OF THE ATOMIC BOMBS GENERALLY EMPHASIZE THESE BASIC PREMISES: The Japanese were the aggressors, starting with the drive for Manchuria in 1931 The Japanese were […]
