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The Iran nuclear program’s Arak heavy water reactor. Photo: Nanking2012 via Wikimedia Commons. The ability to ensure a swift and decisive military victory is an important means of preventing war. It is therefore a key tool in the political toolbox, and references to it in the public statements of members of the political and military echelon — in military exercises and in other shows of force — are warranted not only for practical but also moral reasons. Clausewitz defined the roles of th...

Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura answers questions from reporters on Feb. 1 after the Aichi prefectural election administration commissions announcement that more than 80 percent of signatures in a petition drive to recall Aichi Governor Hidekai Omura were believed to be faked. (Kei Kobayashi) NAGOYA--Prefectural election authorities said most of the hundreds of thousands of signatures collected in a petition drive to recall Aichi Governor Hidekai Omura will not count because they show similar pen...

updated: Jan 30 2021, 02:31 ist Earlier this month, in a historic ruling, a South Korean court ordered the Japanese government to pay compensations to a group of former ‘comfort women’, a euphemistic way to refer to the women who were forced into sexual slavery by Japan during World War II. It is estimated that more than 200,000 girls and women were turned into sexual slaves for the Japanese army during the war, often through abduction, coercion and deception. Military brothels (called ‘C...

Originally published in Japanese in 1982, the novel Sachiko by Shūsaku Endō, perhaps Asia’s best-known Catholic author of fiction, has been recently translated into English by Van C. Gessel. In part a conventional love story of star-crossed lovers ripped apart from their embrace by the tragic whirlwind of the history of the twentieth century, Sachiko is above all a powerful and inspiring account of the moral dilemmas and tenacious faith of Japanese and Western Christians amidst the deprav...

By Dave Gahary A man claiming to have in his group’s possession the legendary treasure known as “Yamashita’s Gold,” consisting of over $100 trillion worth of precious metals and bank funds, was released from federal prison on July 3, 2013, and has agreed to speak with AMERICAN FREE PRESS to discuss details of the matter. He stated to this newspaper that “this money will pay off the budget deficit, and provide for Social Security and healthcare for perpetuity.” Involved throughout th...

Seventy-six years ago today the Soviet Red Army’s 100th Division liberated the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. There were somewhere between 7000 and 9000 prisoners left in the camp when the Soviet soldiers liberated it. The camp’s crematoria had been destroyed as well as most of the gas chambers. The SS had evacuated most of the surviving inmates and slave laborers by forced march to railhead miles away from the camp, in order to take them to other Concentration Camps deeper in Germany; Bu...

Skip to main content S.F. greenlights $1.9 million for Chinatown, and restaurants like 100-year-old Far East Cafe are already getting relief FacebookTwitterEmail Chinatown on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020, in San Francisco, Calif.Santiago Mejia / The Chronicle 2020 Hope is coming for Chinatown. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a Chinatown relief plan Tuesday, aimed at bringing $1.9 million to restaurants to feed the neighborhood’s single-room occupancy hotel residents. Th...

How the USSR helped the Communists seize power in China Public Domain; Russia Beyond The Bolsheviks were in at the beginning of the Communist movement in China. However, it wasn’t the followers of Mao Zedong who became the USSR’s main allies in the country. In 1949, the Communists won a decisive victory in the Chinese Civil War, defeating their implacable enemies, the Kuomintang national conservative party under Chiang Kai-shek. The Soviet Union provided no small help to th...

Tatsuya Mori, second from right, and others learn about the lives of itinerant peddlers in the Kagawa prefectural government’s exhibition room for human rights education in Marugame, Kagawa Prefecture, in November. (Setsuko Tachikawa) MITOYO, Kagawa Prefecture--Famed documentary film director Tatsuya Mori’s next project is a photodrama, his first, based on the true story of Japanese peddlers brutally killed amid social turmoil following the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake. The slayings of the ...

The documentary goes into the lab and presents how scientists, doctors, and other experts across Singapore, China, Japan, South Korea, and the United Kingdom.