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...

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...

The New York Senate passed a bill recently that would require school textbooks to use both the Sea of Japan and the East Sea to refer to the body of water between Japan and South Korea. A similar bill...

China is spreading propaganda campaigns against Japan throughout the world to paint the Japanese as the “Nazis of today.” Their propaganda activities have intensified since Japanese Prime ...

With an “anti-Japanese” historical perspective, China and Korea are attacking Japan. Korea especially is spreading to the world the idea how of awful Japan was during the war. They critici...

The tense situation continues in the Ukraine. In the Autonomous Republic of Crimea in southern Ukraine, a referendum for annexation by Russia was held, where 97% of the people supported the Russian an...