Up until the Second World War, the world was ruled by imperialism where Western powers invaded Asia and Africa, and took various things. Most Asian countries were colonized, controlled by the white ru...

Hideki Tojo shaking hands with various representatives from each nation at the Greater East Asia Conference Nazi Germany was said to have massacred 6 million Jews. At the time, however, many Western n...

About Henry Scott Stokes Henry Scott Stokes Henry Scott Stokes was born in 1938, in UK. After earning master’s degree at Oxford University in 1961, he joined the Financial Times in 1962. He beca...

A Vietnamese shipping boat sank after a Chinese fishing vessel crashed into it in the South China Sea. The sinking occurred in the waters around the Paracel Islands off Vietnam. 40 Chinese vessels enc...

  Wang Dan (a student leader of the Tiananmen Square protests) Wang Dan was born in 1969 in Beijing. He is a historian and a leader of the Chinese democracy movement. He is currently teaching his...

“Their purpose, therefore, in going to war was largely dictated by security.” This is what Douglas MacAurthur said at a hearing of the US Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Commit...

Controversy arose when Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced that through changing the interpretation of the Constitution, consideration for authorizing the right to collective self-defense would be exa...

An Old Moral Judgment: Japan was the “Aggressor” A Statement of Fact: Japan Fought for “Self-defense” and “Liberation from Colonialism”   Many Japanese were fa...

David Williams One of Europe’s leading thinkers on modern Japan. Born in Los Angeles, he was educated in Japan and at UCLA, and has contributed for many years to the opinion section of the Los A...

  An Old Moral Judgment: Wartime Japan Was an “Evil Nation” A Statement of Fact: The Japanese Were Trying to Realize the Ideal of Racial Equality   Japan is often blamed for hist...