Zeventig jaar na het einde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog zwengelt een groep Japanse historici de discussie over de troostmeisjes, vrouwen die gedwongen werden te werken in bordelen van het keizerlijke Japanse leger, weer aan. Ze dringen er bij de Amerikaanse uitgever McGraw-Hill erop aan ‘correcties’ door te voeren in een boek met ‘vele foutieve uitspraken’ …
The Dutch military pilot famous in Broome for taking a plane’s machine gun in his hands and shooting down one of the Japanese fighters laying waste to the town has died aged 100. Captain Gus Winckel had been transporting Dutch refugees as Japanese forces rapidly invaded what was then the Dutch East Indies during World …
WASHINGTON – Two US lawmakers on Wednesday urged Japan to distance itself clearly from an outspoken politician who said that “comfort women” forced to provide sex during World War II were a military necessity. In comments that prompted outrage in South Korea and China, Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto said that World War II soldiers who …