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The confirmed reports of the Hamas-led violence are clear examples of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The full impact of the reprisals by Israel are not yet known, but are already dreadful.

The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are widely regarded as the decisive events that ended World War II in the Pacific. However, few people know that the US almost failed to achieve its goal of forcing Japan to surrender, even after unleashing the most terrible weapons in history. https://youtu.be/96yhS_lEVXg https://youtu.be/96yhS_lEVXg On August 6, 1945,…

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Know Your Enemy: Japan is an American World War II propaganda film about the Japans aggressive war directed by Frank Capra, with additional direction by experimental documentary filmmaker Joris Ivens.

Secluded and serene, the summer spot for many expat families faces challenges that aren't unique to other rural townships in Japan.

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Veterans Today | Military Foreign Affairs Policy Journal for Clandestine Services Rape of Japanese Men and Women After World War II In one raid on Tokyo alone, in one night, an estimated 75,000 to 200,000 people, mostly women and children, were burned to death. Alexis: In response to the previous article, I received a number of messages from a reader positing the claim that “court history is mostly correct, with omissions, following Perry/Tokyo in 1856 were Rothschild, silk for arms traders...

—National Security Agency director Robert O’Brien, 2020 U.S. fantasies of expansion, commercial dominion, and military prowess have long hinged on a premise of Pacific exceptionalism. Couched in the millenarian language of manifest destiny, the Pacific region and its multitudinous ecosystems, cultures, peoples, and nations have been vacated in favor of an aqua nullius that frames the region as an empty space designated for U.S. possession by divine providence. This manufactured Pacific id...