For more than 60 years, an old flag from a Japanese soldier who fought in World War II lay hidden in a closet. When Aaron Sponseller moved to Hiroshima to teach English through the JET Programme, his grandfather gave him the flag in hopes he could find the family to whom it belonged. It was the beginning of a journey that eventually led him to a small town in Niigata prefecture.
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WWII soldier's flag leads Hiroshima JET on extraordinary journey to Niigata prefecture
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1964 Tokyo Olympics
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Tokyo’s contribution to the Olympic Movement when they played host in 1964 to the Games of the XVIII Olympiad.
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Kemigawa Haikyo- the start of Japan's Pacific War
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On December 2nd 1941, just 6 days before the Japanese opened hostilities in the Pacific War against the Allies by bombing Pearl Harbour, a coded signal went out from the Kemigawa Transmission Station in Tochigi to join the war: MJG explores the haikyo.
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Sacked Japan air force head defends WWII actions
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A Japanese general who was fired as head of the air force for suggesting Japan deserves credit, not blame, for its World War II actions stood by his claim Monday.
Read more »Japan should acknowledge sex slaves' pain: British MPs
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Japan should acknowledge the importance of Second World War “comfort women” as a “painful and emotive” issue in South Korea, an influential committee of British parliamentarians said Sunday.
The Foreign Affairs Committee said that improving relations between Japan and South Korea could play an important part in resolving the nuclear stand-off involving North Korea.
High court favors Oe in ruling over military involvement in Okinawa suicides
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The Osaka High Court recognized Friday that the Imperial Japanese Army was involved in the mass suicide of civilians during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa, dismissing an appeal by a former military officer and the kin of another in a libel suit against novelist Kenzaburo Oe and his publisher over descriptions in his book.
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