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Sketching Hiroshima: US website highlights Japanese artist known for message against A-bomb January 3, 2021 (Mainichi Japan) This Oct. 18, 2020 image shows a section explaining street posters designed by Goro Shikoku, on a special website introducing the life and works of the late Japanese artist. (Mainichi/Akihiro Nakajima) HIROSHIMA -- A special English website introducing the life and works of Japanese artist Goro Shikoku, who devoted himself to brazen anti-war and cultural movements in postwar Hiroshima, has been set up by a U.S. college professor. Goro Shikoku (1924-2014) is know...

Para-demolition bombs being dropped on supply warehouses and dock facilities at a port in Wonsan, North Korea by the Fifth Air Force's B-26 Invader light bombers (ca. 1951). From USAF (photo 306-PS-51(10303)), public holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration, cataloged under the National Archives Identifier (NAID) 541959., Public Domain, Link. Tim Beal is a retired New Zealand academic who has written extensively on Asia with a special focus on the Korean peninsula. His most recent work is the entry on Korea for The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialis...

When John Dower first heard about the D.B. Cooper skyjacking, the British filmmaker was “really fucking annoyed” he hadn’t learned of the incredible caper sooner. “You think, It can’t be true; it’s bonkers,” Dower told Vanity Fair over Zoom last week, speaking from his office, where he sat in front of stacks of books about the unsolved crime. “It’s just such a crazy story.” On Thanksgiving eve in 1971, a man wearing a suit and black tie boarded a Boeing 727 in Portland. Once on board, the man—who gave the name Dan Cooper—sparked a cigarette, ordered a bourbon and sod...