TOKYO — Okinawa marked the 80th anniversary of the end of one of the harshest battles of World War II fought on the southern island. With global tensions escalating, its governor said on Monday it is ...
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Rearming Japan

IN one of the more staggering ironies of our time, the country that was atom-bombed by the United States in order to compel its unconditional surrender and end the Second World War was required by the ...
Eighty years have passed since Japan’s surrender ended the second world war. But the way Japan thinks about its wartime history is changing at pace. This is coinciding with a political shift that ...