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Japanese digger searches for WWII remains: ‘Best way to honor war dead is never to allow another war’
Takamatsu Gushiken leaves a cave Feb. 15 after a session of searching for the remains of those who died during the Battle of Okinawa toward the end of the World War II in 1945, in Itoman, on the ...
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75 years later, Japan’s second world war orphans talk about their pain and recovery
During the war, Japanese schoolchildren were taught to revere the emperor as a god and devote their lives to him. On that November day, Hoshino stepped out of her parents’ noodle shop in Tokyo ...
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Short term cause -Defeat in the war with Japan
China was weak and Japan had an interest in acquiring land for herself. Japanese negotiations to avoid war were ignored by Tsarist officials and hence the war began. Japanese troops storm a ...