News from Japan Focus, Indochina, Bloomberg’s NY Prison

(Znet) U.S. War Crimes in Indochina and Our Duty to Truth Herbert P. Bix, The Faith That Supports U.S. Violence: Comparative Reflections on the Arrogance of Empire City of Nagasaki Peace Declaration David McNeill, The Island Idyll and the US Occupation Chung Chinsung, Resurgence of the Right and Japan’s World War II Accountability The City of Hiroshima Peace Declaration Mark Caprio, North Korea Cool to United States “Surprises” Tomaki Juda and Charles J. Hanley, Bikini and the Hydrogen Bomb: A Fifty Year Perspective Mark Schilling, Life After the Bomb Suzuki Chieko, The Hundred Head Contest: Reassessing the Nanjing Massacre Satoko KOGURE, Japan’s New Security Regime and the Rights of Foreigners Minami Norio, Resolving the Wartime Forced Labor Compensation Question Tanaka Nobumasa, Yasukuni Shrine and the Double Genocide of Taiwan’s Indigenous Atayal: new court verdict Shin Sugok, Japan’s outspoken ‘weak’ confront the ire of the masses Umehara Takeshi, Official Visits to Yasukuni Shrine Invite the Revenge of Reason Mark Selden, David Allen, Kyodo, Marine Major Convicted of Molestation on Okinawa Adam Lebowitz, Hashi-yan’s Last Dispatch From Iraq Associated Press, Scandal Erupts Over Japan’s Radioactive Nuclear Waste Ishida Takeshi, A Foreign Country in Japan: Sugamo Prison Mori Takemaro, Colonies and Countryside in Wartime Japan: Emigration to Manchuria Nishida Yoshiaki and Ann Waswo, Re-thinking Rural Japan Gerard Greenfield, Writing the History of the Future: The Killing Game Ha-yung Jong, Caught in America’s War: South Korea and Iraq Mark Selden, Notes From Ground Zero: Power, Equity and Postwar Reconstruction in Two Eras Moriguchi Katsu, Once More the Doctors have Disappeared from the Okinawan Islands Read more