2016 marks 70 years since the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE). In order to reassess its contents, the 3rd IMTFE research conference was held at Kokushikan University on...

  A foreign minister meeting was recently held in Seoul, South Korea over the Comfort Women Problem, consequently coming to a mutual agreement.   The points of agreement were as follows: Pri...

  At Princeton University, a group of Black American students occupied the President’s room, demanding that the institution erase the name of Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the U.S. ...

  World War II brought to light the fundamental disconnect between the East and the West. Distrust, disparate goals, basic philosophic, economic and racial barriers stood in the way of constructi...

  The controversy over the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki continues and will continue, imbuing current and future generations with the task of disputing this catastrophic ...

  The Philippine government filed an international arbitration case in 2013 over China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea. On October 29th of this year, the Permanent Court of Arbi...

Shigeo Hiramatsu (an expert on Chinese military affairs) Born in 1936. After earning a master’s degree from Keio University’s graduate school, he worked at the National Institute for Defen...

Shigeo Hiramatsu (an expert on Chinese military affairs) Born in 1936. After earning a master’s degree from Keio University’s graduate school, he worked at the National Institute for Defen...

The Paris-based United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) announced at night on October 9th local time (before dawn on the 10th Japan time) that it has agreed to inscr...

  On September 22nd, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted on a resolution that supports the installment of a statue honoring the “comfort women” and unanimously approved it. An anti...