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Ill take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world Brazil Space Agency says they are results experience even of a devastating fire season satellite data shows the places are almost as bad as last year despite projects from president giant ball sinatra to curb the destruction rainforests as one of the most biodiverse regions on earth. The Korean Peninsula is on high alert as typhoon base hack approaches more than 300. 00 flights being canceled in south korea and Japan Coast Guard is searching for a cargo ship that sent out a distress call during the typhoon a wednesday. Pope francis has held his 1st face to face audience in 6 months but 500. 00 worshippers had temperature checks and wore masks in order to attend be scaled down events at the vatican. For the Venice Film Festival opens today the 1st major film event to roll out the red carpet since the pandemic started many stars were missing because of travel restrictions but that there were still some big names in attendance like a blush at. The actresses a present at this years jury Tilda Swinton arrived head of the opening ceremony. 26. As is rarely been seen with only a handful of 2 ists but the citys annual Film Festival opens today for its 77. 00 sedition along with precautionary measures so show these dancing mandatory mask wearing and temperature taking to Global Pandemic and International Travel restrictions are so mean that fewer hollywood stars will be in attendance d. C. At a festival has done better in terms of gender parity with 8 out of 18 films in competition directed by women to many reached a competition category with jeff on high and says and tomorrow diane tyo wrote a drama about political radicalization the born this trend and democrat to show concerts yallop on the start didnt turn into these are going to desire to have direction disgrace to be dashed and on campus is going to caucus most in here. Like. Another competition film to look out for will be wife of us pi from direct tokyo she caressed our a story of love in wartime japan during the 1940 s. Out of competition nathan crossmans documentary about comment activities creator turned back to premiere thursday. In new york and i think. I will draw. The. Line. On its opening day to festival an actress to the swinton with a Lifetime Achievement award the competition runs for 11 days on september 12th will find out who will take home this years coveted golden lion. Scott drugs for from d w our culture is in a very so welcome scott so how are things different there to other years in these times of pandemic. Yes well im sure you can see right away one of the main differences im wearing a mask of course like everybody else here required one of the Safety Measures that will you wear masks inside also the most but also outside around the festival area as as a precaution but of course you can just look around here and see if other major difference from Venice Film Festivals past i mean im right here in front of what usually is the red carpet and on a typical Opening Night this would be packed with film fans 60 waiting and screaming out for 4 of the stars that will be crossing the red carpet but this year for safety they put up a wall to block. Fans from crushing and crushing the stars and asking for asking for autographs its just one of the many security measures that have been put into place this year but its hard to are to fault the Film Festival for this i mean without these measures this festival wouldnt even be taking place ok so lets talk about the films that its opening with an italian film that ties what we know about this. Yeah this is a interesting film set in the 1980 s. Its a marital drama about a couple thats been together for some 30 years but the relationship is starting to fall apart because the husband has started relationship with a younger woman not too unusual story perhaps but what is unusual is that this is the tell you film opening the Venice Film Festival which hasnt happened for 11 years so its quite a quite a special event for the industry here but i think whats most important is the fact that the director. Has said that he specifically wanted to bring the film to venice as a symbol as a as a as a sign to the industry here but also to the industry around the world that we can start seeing movies again the festivals Film Festivals can start happening again and this whole the whole Film Industry which has really been on its knees since the start of the coronavirus kind demick maybe can start to get back up again ok so i took a survey of the other highlights from the next few days. Yeah well one of the big differences this year is because the Hollywood Studios and big streamers like netflix havent sent their films to venice because theyre holding back a lot of movies until theaters in the u. S. Really open up again we have a very european Film Festival compared to many festivals past so that means that the real highlights are the europeans and i really just pick out a couple i mean. The film thats not a company film its not a competition but is open the the horizontal horizontal horizontal side bar called apples its a. Great movie that is about a pandemic but a very different one in this pandemic causes amnesia and its really sort of a fairy tale about memory and about how technology has as changed our lives and then theres also a german Film Screening next week im really excited to see called and to more of the entire world which is about the dangers dangers of political extremism which i think youd agree couldnt really be more topical. Inventive thank you. Let me close with some breaking news a big push at the top off a of program day yet German Government says it has unequivocal evidence thats a russian Opposition Leader alexina valley was poisoned with a military nerve agent no v. H. F. Will be chock a mist in the valleys being treated in hospital here in bad enough to forming in siberia last month it suspected that someone that deliberately laced his tea with a toxin another shock is the same agent used to poison ivy a british intelligent agent and his daughter in the 20 at 18 so obviously more on that story and when up next here on being a w d w a new sat asia with a bearish bannerjee ill be back at the top of the hour with more world news of the day. Have you flown lately. Everyone d treats her sisters the coronavirus pandemic as clown to airplanes worldwide. The entire industry has to reinvent itself. Its now careening between forced optimism and despondency made conservative. People 60 minutes d. W. Plato is for me plato for is for you. Is for hello claimed beethoven is for her. Plato is for the. Play. Beethoven is for cars plato for is for every place of. Beethoven 2020 the 250th anniversary here on deal there. Coincidence. Previously it was just a messy chemistry. But. The creation of our solar system with our planet is a bit like winning the lottery families on. Earth. Start september 18th on t. W. This is a show coming up the 75th anniversary of. World war 2 we traced the long shadows it costs to the. Beginning with this south korean man conscripted into the Japanese Army. And forced to choose the. Automatic up a man who made life after japan. Became suspect. And british welcome to deal. With us 75 years ago today japan officially signed it in world war 2 even though it had announced an end to the fighting 2 weeks before it wasnt until the 2nd of september 1905 that the surrender was officially signed it came however at the cost of some 30000000 lives in asia from targeted such as in china fighting and occupation. By bitterness Japanese Forces at its peak japan controlled territory from eastern china to most of Southeast Asia but with it came suffering in the local populations and death however there were also those who were forced to work for imperial Japanese Forces such as the protagonist of our next report. For 95 year old lee had gray memories fade slowly during world war 2 the south Korean National fought for the Japanese Army afterwards he was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to 20 years in prison and his home near tokyo the horrors of the time continue to haunt him and couldnt move i was going to go back to career but i couldnt because there was so Much Negative sentiment there i just couldnt live there i had no choice but to settle down in japan and live a difficult life here go. Through what rhodes was how to approach the. Night hundreds of thousands of koreans we had gray was conscripted by the occupying Japanese Army he was put to work building what became known as the Death Railway a strategically important line connecting thailand and then burma he was placed in command of hundreds of thousands of prisoners of war and according to trial documents earned the nickname the lizard because of his brutality tens of thousands died during construction of the 400 kilometer long line with its bridge over the river kwai most of the victims were asian but many british duchesse trail ians and americans were also killed after the atomic bombings on hiroshima and nagasaki on the 6th the 9th of august 945 japan finally capitulated on the usa because of a nationwide reaction to a victory back press conference president calderon gives a long awaited announcement i then theres your ply april acceptance of the pops than by. Aeration i specified the surrender. To the gallows pound box does yours while waiting work on the east coast of the west american millions that ive been waiting. A while. On the 2nd get so 10 men 145 the japanese government formalized it surrender on a u. S. Warship. To this day the past weighs heavily on japan. But. Like reflecting on our past and bearing in mind the feelings of deep remorse i earnestly hope that the ravages of war will never be repeated sinking 80. 3rd japan surrender brought to an end perhaps the darkest chapter in its history for both perpetrators and victims the atrocities of the past live on. So what shadows do there cast on modern japan just kingston is director of Asian Studies at Temple University in tokyo and all sort of the book japan which looks of the challenges the country is facing in its postwar period professor kingston pleasure to have you on the program sitting here in germany one cannot escape the spirit of adornment if i can call it that for germanys role in world war 2 im wondering if the same exists in japan for its part in the war. Well not really i mean its something of an unfair comparison i mean germanys an outlier among nations so germany is grass that nettle of its history its the model tentative all nations suffering in comparison japan you know really they didnt. Exuma the unfortunate past since the emperor hirohito died in 89 and then the early ninetys there was a brief period where they began to exuma that history and the archives you lived their secrets the veterans found their diaries and they wrote about they talked about the taboo subjects such as the comfort women system of sexual slavery forced labor none jane you know at 731. 00 but this provoked a sharp backlash from conservatives and they have bank contesting this is tree seriously in broadly thought culture wars since the mid 1990 s. And the Prime Minister all day who just reside he was one of the leading revisionists who are committed to rewriting japans work time passed and we have bill a taping that error so this is the mainstream political dominant party you know favor at this revisionist past of downplaying minimizing and mitigating so this is something that you would not encounter in germany. Yet this is happening in a country that does have it must be said a us written pacifist constitution is at least in the books against wall and militarization it to have as you correctly pointed out sions obvious government which wanted to revise the constitution im just wondering how conservatives seem to be able to carry on with the negative of excluding what japans actions why in world war 2. Well i think there is a sort of collective perpetrators. Right so the thing is most japanese are not voting for politicians because of their stand on history right they vote pocketbook issues the liberal Democratic Party that has dominated japanese all that since 1955 is generally as more competent on those issues so these politicians are not running on a you know lets deny the history lets you know propagate revisionist whitewashing of all of our textbooks lesser race comfort women all the textbooks as of now this is not what theyre running on but they are the ones who do gain power and they are pushing this white washing that japans unfortunate shared history with the rest of asia and how does that impact japans relations with its neighbors in prime amongst them china and south korea of course im talking about the occupation of Mainland China and the comfort women issue with south korea how does this impact relations with these countries. So obviously the unresolved grievances of the shared history continued to reverberated 75 years after the end of world war 2 so in china clearly historical and territorial issues divide clearly that chinese would appreciate japan and coming clean a more forthright reckoning on their shared history and as south korea course there are very angry disputes about source labor and about the comfort woman and so the japanese and bassett or what are you setting off the United States couple years ago in a house to the press here his priority was to remove every single comfort woman statue in the United States it was sort of one of those wow moments like really of all the things they are going on a bilateral relationship removing comfort women statues was his priority so this is a very sensitive issue or japans right wing and clearly you know right now south korea and japan are having a major dispute over forced labor and compensation and their relationship to spiral downwards over the past year. And also want to talk about but for now from even professor jeff kingston speaking to us from tokyo thank you so much and get. And on the other side of the world in the United States itself japanese and japanese americans face the wrath of the u. S. Government more than 100000 of them were rounded up and sent to return camps on orders of president franklin d. Roosevelt the order was based on fears of japanese attack or sabotage but it was altered in destroying the lives of many thousands of american citizens and every evening when japan bombed pearl harbor in 1941 he taketh the time around knew immediately that he was going to have a tough time in the us as a japanese american he was torn between the 2 more in countries. That medical care for him has started between japan and the us one an example i was so surprised. I thought that means japanese People Like Us would be killed in the us all of them right on this. Time or became one of the estimated 120000 japanese americans who were forced into internment camps stripped of their properties and rights by the government asked them whether they would serve for the u. S. Military and swear unqualified allegiance to the United States many were forced to say yes but tamera and some others protested. Theres another 10 got posts and from the back of the ancient there machine guns at us these were american soldiers who had just returned from war and he took the japanese gave him to shoot at us if you want to. Seen by the u. S. Government as a troublemaker temora felt alienated from his adopted home he became distrustful of u. S. News and couldnt even believe japan had lost the war it only became real when he returned to live there in 1945 despite the hostility between the 2 countries at that time tamera had always liked america but he says the issue of Racial Injustice needs to be better addressed or will it with the years you know. 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