World War II – Page 4 – Asia Times

A model 1950s Candy washing machine. Photo: Candy

China, European Union, France, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Middle East, New Zealand, Northeast Asia, Oceania, Russia, Shanghai, Turkey, United Kingdom, World

Candy rush for China’s electronics giant

by Gordon Watts October 3, 2018February 18, 2020

Unleashing hell, an American bomber during the Allies arial campaign against Germany in World War II. Photo: Shutterstock / Everett Historical

World War II bombing raids struck the edge of space

by Patrick Major and Chris Scott September 30, 2018February 18, 2020

Sailors in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force stand at attention aboard the JS KAGA DDH-184 as it arrives at Tanjung Priok port in Indonesia on September 18, 2018. Photo: Andrew Lotulung/NurPhoto)

Japan, North Korea, Northeast Asia, World

Changing Japan’s Constitution – a lot of work, but for what?

by Grant Newsham September 20, 2018February 18, 2020

Thirteen Filipino World War II veterans were given the highest civilian honor by the United States Congress for their service in Bataan during the war. Photo: US Embassy in the Philippines

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Filipino World War II veterans given highest civilian honor

by Asia Times staff September 14, 2018February 18, 2020

Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shake hands at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok. Photo: AFP / Alexander Vilf / Sputnik

China, Japan, Northeast Asia, Russia, South Asia, World

Putin wants Russia and Japan to seal historic peace deal

by Asia Times staff September 12, 2018February 18, 2020

Wood hand gesture symbol: Payment cash. Photo: iStock

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Trump should learn from Marshall Plan – like Xi

by Ken Moak September 4, 2018September 4, 2018

Vladimir Putin inspects military exercises in the Pacific Ocean near Sakhalin island on July 16, 2013. Photo: AFP/Ria-Novosti/Alexei Nikolsky

European Union, Germany, Japan, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Russia, South Asia, South Korea, World

Russia, World War II and Northeast Asia

by Robert E. McCoy August 15, 2018February 18, 2020

US President Donald Trump walks across the South Lawn of the White House on Friday May 25. Photo: AFP/ Mandel Ngan

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White House of Lies

by Joseph S. Nye August 12, 2018August 12, 2018

Boats carrying bonfires float along the Motoyasu-gawa River in front of the Atomic Bomb Dome in honor of the souls of those lost in the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The ceremony took place on Aug. 5, 2018, the eve of the 73rd anniversary of the bombing. Photo: The Yomiuri Shimbun

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Could Tokyo ever go critical and make nuclear weapons?

by Robert E. McCoy August 6, 2018February 18, 2020

The bomb was found in an MTR construction site in Wan Chai on Hong Kong Island. Photo: HK Police

China, Hong Kong, Japan, Northeast Asia, World

Police defuse third WWII bomb found in Wan Chai

by Asia Times staff May 11, 2018February 18, 2020

A Chinese J-15 fighter jet lands on the deck of the Liaoning aircraft carrier during military drills. Photo: AFP

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How China, US are spawning a new great-power naval rivalry

by Alfred McCoy April 9, 2018

The kukri has been known as 'The Gurkha Knife' since WWI and WWII. Photo: iStock

AT Finance, Brunei, India, Nepal, Singapore, South Asia

A brief history of the Gurkha’s knife – the kukri

by Tim I Gurung April 6, 2018February 18, 2020

A 'Go-fast' narco boat off the coast of Panama, as tracked by a US Customs and Border Protection P-3 aircraft. Photo via YouTube

Australia, China, European Union, France, India, Italy, Japan, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Oceania, Pakistan, Russia, South Asia, Taiwan, United Kingdom, World

Narco submarines offer lessons for Pacific defense

by Stephen Bryen March 21, 2018

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin meet in Ankara, Turkey, on December 11, 2017. Photo: Reuters / Umit Bektas

Australia, China, European Union, Germany, India, Iran, Iraq, Middle East, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Oceania, Pakistan, Russia, South Asia, South Korea, Syria, Turkey, World

Comparative thuggery challenging interests of US and its allies

by Norman A. Bailey March 12, 2018March 12, 2018

An artists impression of the planned 350-meter-high wooden skyscraper in Tokyo announced by the Sumitomo Forestry Company. Illustration: Sumitomo Forestry Company

Japan, Northeast Asia, World

Cities of the future could be a forest of ‘Plyscrapers’

by Asia Times staff February 20, 2018February 18, 2020

Japan Self-Defense Forces soldiers drive a PAC-3 missile unit into place at Asaka base, north of Tokyo. Photo: Reuters / Issei Kato

Australia, China, India, Japan, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Oceania, South Asia, South Korea

Hurdles for Abe as he braces to tackle constitutional revision

by Peter J. Brown January 25, 2018February 18, 2020

Members of the Rajput community protest against the release of the upcoming Bollywood movie 'Padmaavat' in Mumbai on January 12, 2018. Photo: Reuters / Danish Siddiqui

Bangladesh, European Union, India, Middle East, South Asia, United Kingdom, World

History remains elusive as India battles violence over fictional movie

by Mohan Guruswamy January 25, 2018

Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyers followed by a US cruiser and destroyer conducting joint operations in November. Photo: US Navy via AFP

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The disconcerting role Japan will increasingly play as key US ally in East Asia

by Robert E. McCoy January 22, 2018

Donald Nichols loved dogs. In Korea, he had a snarling pack of mutts for protection from North Korean assassins. At his spy base outside Seoul, his dogs sometimes ate with him in the officers' mess and occasionally bit other Air Force officers. Photo courtesy of Lindsay Morgan

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The bloody rise and shocking fall of a US spymaster in Cold War Korea

by Andrew Salmon January 20, 2018February 18, 2020

Japanese actress and former AV porn idol Sora Aoi in Beijing. Photo: AFP

China, Hong Kong, Japan, Northeast Asia, Shanghai, World

The amazing rise in China of Japan’s porn princess Sora Aoi

by Gordon Watts January 16, 2018February 18, 2020

A boy (looks at a statue of a teenage girl symbolizing "comfort women" on a bus running through downtown Seoul on August 14, 2017.Photo: AFP / Jung Yeon-Je

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Japan’s Abe returns fire from Korea’s Moon on ‘comfort women’

by Andrew Salmon January 12, 2018February 18, 2020

South Korea's Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-Wha finishes up a briefing on the 2015 South Korea-Japan agreement over South Korea's "comfort women" issue at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul, on January 9, 2018. Photo: Reuters: Jung Yeon-Je

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Seoul opts not to overturn 2015 comfort women deal with Tokyo

by Andrew Salmon January 9, 2018February 18, 2020

A statue symbolizing former South Korean 'comfort women' is seen during an anti-Japan rally in Seoul, on March 1, 2017. Photo: Reuters / Kim Hong-Ji

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Comfort women issue undermines security relationships

by Grant Newsham January 9, 2018

Flowers are laid on a statue of a girl that represents the wartime sexual victims by the Japanese military, during a rally in front of Japanese Consulate in Busan, South Korea, on December 30, 2016. Photo: Reuters

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Probe casts shadow over ‘comfort women’ deal

by Andrew Salmon December 27, 2017February 18, 2020

Bacillus anthracis. Photo: iStock / Getty

China, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Japan, Middle East, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Russia, South Korea, Syria, Turkey, United Kingdom, World

S. Korea, Japan had best stock up on antibiotics to treat anthrax

by Stephen Bryen December 21, 2017

Donald Trump on a telephone before playing a round of golf in a 2013 file photo. Photo: Reuters/Andrew Innerarity

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US presidents and foreign policy: intelligent design or evolution?

by Leon Hadar December 16, 2017

South Korea's President Moon Jae-in. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

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South Korea’s evolution toward true ‘middle power’ status

by Robert E. McCoy December 15, 2017

A scene from Hanagatami. Photo: ©karatsu film partners／PSC 2017

European Union, Japan, Northeast Asia, World

Japanese film visionary completes antiwar trilogy against odds

by Karen Severns December 9, 2017February 18, 2020

US sailors stand amid wrecked planes at Pearl Harbor after a Japanese attack, watching as USS Shaw explodes in the center background, 7 December 1941. Photo: US Navy, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Japan, North Korea, Northeast Asia, South Korea, World

Parallel between Japan 1941 and N. Korea 2017?

by Asia Times staff December 9, 2017February 18, 2020

An image from the Shenyang POW camp museum shows Allied prisoners in a forced march

AT Finance, Australia, China, France, Germany, Japan, Northeast Asia, Oceania, Philippines, World

Powerful reminder of American suffering in WWII Japanese camp

by George Koo November 24, 2017November 24, 2017