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Bill would aid Taiwan, Korea war criminals

Kyodo News

The Democratic Party of Japan submitted a bill Thursday aimed at providing ¥3 million in special benefits to each Korean and Taiwanese convicted of Class B or C war crimes at the Tokyo tribunal.

Taiwan recalls representative to Japan over boat incident
The Associated PressPublished: Sunday, June 15, 2008

http://www.iht. com/articles/ ap/2008/06/ 15/asia/AS- GEN-Taiwan- Japan-Protest. php

TAIPEI, Taiwan: Taiwan has recalled its envoy to Japan over Tokyo's handling of a ship collision in disputed waters earlier this week.

Chemical weapons
05/16/2008
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN

The Imperial Japanese Army brought a myriad of chemical weapons into China during World War II and abandoned them there as the conflict drew to a close. These poison gas weapons were buried underground or dumped in rivers.

Friends:

The short editorial comments below will help explain my 65-years-long unreconciled resentment against the nation of Japan. The treatment of American prisoners-of- war, beginning in 1942 in the Philippines with the 'Death March', and continuing through the brutal treatment of Americans (and many others) during World War II, has remained unexplained and unreconciled as an issue between the U.S. and the Japanese Nation.

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Nanjing victim's libeler loses appeal

By MINORU MATSUTANI
The Tokyo High Court on Wednesday upheld a lower court defamation ruling, ordering a historian and a publishing company to pay a combined ¥4 million to a female Nanjing Massacre survivor for calling her an impostor in a book about the atrocity.

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Hundreds flock to see 'Yasukuni'

By TAKAHIRO FUKADA
Staff writer

People started arriving at Cine Amuse in Shibuya hours before the first screening, but despite expectations, no rightwing protests or speaker trucks were seen in the area.

Taboo preview: A man reads a leaflet about "Yasukuni" in Tokyo on Saturday.

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Distributor to go ahead with showing 'Yasukuni'

Compiled from Kyodo, staff reports
Movie distributor Argo Pictures said Monday it will go ahead with plans to screen a controversial documentary on Yasukuni Shrine across Japan in early May as scheduled, despite a request from the Shinto shrine to delete some of the content.

That House Resolution No.124 has to go back and be voted on again in the committee level after being declared approved by foreign affairs committee chair, Rep. Antonio Cuenco, is a disappointment.

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Tuesday, April 8, 2008

THE ZEIT GIST

Dancing with the devil over 'Yasukuni'

Blame the politicians who flirt with fascists for the debacle over Li's documentary

In memory of Iris Chang and Nanjing
By Xu Wei
2008-4-4

Author Iris Chang called the Rape of Nanjing "the forgotten Holocaust of World War II" and shone new light on the 1937 massacre. Now her own valiant story unfolds in a film released today, writes Xu Wei.

David McNeill

John Junkerman interviews Li Ying

Neo-nationalists have shut down a Chinese-directed movie about Japan’s controversial war memorial Yasukuni, the latest in a string of incidents threatening freedom of expression in Japan.

David McNeill

John Junkerman interviews Li Ying

Neo-nationalists have shut down a Chinese-directed movie about Japan’s controversial war memorial Yasukuni, the latest in a string of incidents threatening freedom of expression in Japan.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/29/world/asia/29japan.html

Japanese Court Rejects Defamation Lawsuit Against Nobel Laureate
By NORIMITSU ONISHI
TOKYO ¡X A Japanese court rejected a defamation lawsuit on Friday against Kenzaburo Oe, the 1994 Nobel laureate in literature, agreeing with his depiction of involvement by the Japanese military in the mass suicides of civilians in Okinawa toward the end of World War II.

http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=politics2_mar12_2008

Apologize, lawmakers tell Japan
By Romie A. Evangelista and Michael Caber

THE House foreign affairs committee yesterday approved a resolution demanding that the Japanese government issue an apology and accept responsibility for the fate of Filipino comfort women during World War II.