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As historians, we express our dismay at recent attempts by the Japanese government to suppress statements in history textbooks both in Japan and elsewhere about the […]

BY JEFF KINGSTON SPECIAL TO THE JAPAN TIMES FEB 14, 2015 Global understanding does not come cheaply. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government has budgeted ¥70 billion — […]

By Anna Fifield  February 9, 2015 TOKYO — A group of American historians is issuing a call to their Japanese counterparts to remain steadfast in the face of pressure […]

WASHINGTON — In 1942, a lieutenant paymaster in Japan’s Imperial Navy named Yasuhiro Nakasone was stationed at Balikpapan on the island of Borneo, assigned to oversee […]