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Since World War II, ‘people to people relationships’ have helped forge a strong alliance between US and Japan
In Rhode Island, one of the strongest and most robust sister-city relationships has bee built between the port cities of ...
We The People: Marking 80 years since the first atomic bombs were dropped in WWII
In an effort to end the Second World War, the United States made an irreversible decision, changing the course of history: ...
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Japanese MFA accuses USSR of attack to play down US atom bombings — Russian lawmaker
Vladimir Dzhabarov emphasized the significance of the Soviet offensive in Manchuria, noting that it was decisive because the United States would not have succeeded in ending the war with atomic bombs ...
Ex-Pistons first-rounder Stanley Johnson keeps hoops journey alive in Japan
Stanley Johnson, a former lottery pick for the Pistons, is heading to Japan for the next chapter of his pro basketball career ...
Manila Standard2hOpinion
Listening to atomic bomb survivors
EVERY year, but particularly today, we hear the echoes of the grief of less than 100,000 officially recognized survivors of ...
80 Years After Hiroshima, the Nuclear Taboo Can’t Be Taken for Granted
Although the atomic bomb hasn't been used in war since it was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the possibility of its ...
How the Japanese City of Kokura Narrowly Avoided Nagasaki's A-Bomb
“Fat Man” was originally intended for a different Japanese city.
Manila Standard2hOpinion
Next Hiroshima: Somewhere Philippines?
"The US is threatened to the extent it is now building up to a nuclear confrontation with rising nuclear powers Rus" IT IS ...
The Economist4h
Japan’s dithering wartime leaders were just as harmful as European dictators, says Eri Hotta
Even General Tojo Hideki, often considered one of the most bellicose leaders of wartime Japan, and who was later executed by ...
US decision to use nuclear weapons ended World War II
Difficult and controversial as it was, President Truman's decision to drop the bombs saved countless lives, both Japanese and ...
Grandkids of men who experienced Japan A-bomb attacks work for peace 80 years later
Ari Beser’s grandfather was on the two American B-29 bombers that dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima ...
America Magazine5h
In ‘Hiroshima Mon Amour,’ memory is a wound that will not heal.
W]e soon began to raise pyramids of bodies and pour fuel on them to set them afire.” The memory would never leave him. This week the world commemorates the 80th anniversary of the bombings of ...