Yasukuni visit exacerbates wounds

Print: Jun 08, 2013 Last Modfied: Jun 08, 2013 WORCESTER, ENGLAND Britain's Prince Charles visited Japanese machine tool maker Yamazaki Mazak's factory in central England on Thursday to learn about its highly regarded training programs for ...

Diplomatic friction between Tokyo and Seoul over territorial and historical disputes is making headlines once again, and Tokyo's right-wing protesters know just where to go to get in the face of its Korean residents: Koreatown in Shinjuku Ward's ...

In an interview with the U.S. policy magazine Foreign Affairs on Sunday, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe likened the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, which houses the remains of Japan's war dead including convicted World War II criminals, with the ...

After its defeat in World War II, many of the political legacies nurtured during Japan's militaristic era became politically taboo. They include its intelligence-gathering units, such as those under the Imperial Japanese Army and the military ...

The three new leaders of Korea, China and Japan are all scions of families with political heft in the past. In modern history, this is the first time leaders of the three Northeast Asian nations share such a common background. Their rivalry, which ...

It is widely assumed that the Japan-U.S. military alliance plays a key role in securing peace in Northeast Asia. It not only shores up procedural democracy in Japan and South Korea but also assures Japan's neighbors, China in particular, of Japan's ...

WASHINGTON -- The first time I met the legendary Sam Jameson we had tea in Tokyo This tall, stolid Yankee with the open Midwestern smile had arrived in the island nation with the U.S. Army in 1960, when World War II had still not really ended. Parts ...

To be modest is a virtue, but servility is a wasteland. Studying history, knowing the world and being discreet in one's comments are nothing to be ashamed of. At the same time, speaking out about one's awareness of historical issues should not be ...

Just as I thought I could put the finishing touches on my book manuscript, Japanese Domestic Politics and the Rise of China (Columbia University Press), which has a chapter on Yasukuni, the issue erupted again to confound Japan's diplomatic ...