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The Times
March 12, 2018
After a year of simmering scandal, these shady elements have come together in a political crisis that threatens to overwhelm Shinzo Abe, Japan's right-wing ... But today the finance ministry confirmed reports in the Japanese media that documents submitted to the Diet concerning the property deal wereÃâà...
Independent Online
March 9, 2018
Japan has had to contend with North Korea launching two missiles over the Japanese mainland last year, in addition to its seven other missile tests, and an ... nuclear supremacy, and rogue nations threaten to attack, it is difficult to maintain a policy based on pacifism, which had bordered on anti-militarism.
The Independent
March 9, 2018
Jackie Chan has sponsored a bill urging Beijing to introduce laws to protect China's “national dignity” from insults. The martial arts film star is one of 38 top political advisers who signed a proposal calling for affronts to the country's “history, heroes and martyrs” be punishable as crimes. State media said theÃâà...
South China Morning Post
March 9, 2018
... of top Chinese political advisers calling for a law to “protect national integrity and dignity”, after a string of cases of Chinese showing Japan's wartime ... The proposal from 38 arts members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference suggests making “advocacy for Japanese militarism,Ãâà...
Ryukyushimpo
March 2, 2018
Participants met in front of the Mid-Manhattan Library and raised awareness for Okinawa's current circumstances by holding up placards and banners with slogans to the effect of: “No U.S. bases in Okinawa,” “end U.S. militarism now,” and “save dugongs.” Okinawa Peace Appeal representative NorikoÃâà...
Global Times
March 1, 2018
The pair's action offended Chinese sensibilities because of the sensitive war history between China and Japan. Similar events took place several times last year. Four men posed in Japanese army uniforms at Shanghai's Sihang Warehouse, a site of an anti-Japanese battle; two men had themselvesÃâà...
Xinhua
February 28, 2018
PYONGYANG, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) -- The official media of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Wednesday accused Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of using security as an excuse to revive militarism and enable Japan to wage war overseas. The official daily Minju Joson, published by theÃâà...
Express.co.uk
February 27, 2018
The report said: “They seek to train the younger generations into brutes occupied by hostility toward the DPRK and militarism by fanning up war-phobia ... “The report said: “The Japanese reactionaries sharpening the sword for reinvasion, far from making an apology for the thrice-cursed crimes against theÃâà...
Xinhua
February 27, 2018
"Because such trend would offer no justification and pretext for them to advance toward militarism so as to turn Japan into a 'country able to conduct a war'," said the KCNA. The DPRK and South Korea agreed to continue efforts to improve inter-Korean relations and build peace on the Korean PeninsulaÃâà...
The Hankyoreh
February 19, 2018
Japan's Constitution and Article 9 in particular are symbolic of the country's posture. From the 1930s to the first half of the 1940s, Japanese colonialism and invasive militarism brought great suffering to other Asians, and the country's spirit of remorse and self-discipline in repentance over its previousÃâà...
Detroit Free Press
February 17, 2018
It was in this environment that militarism began to take hold — and the Japanese government became more hands-on in its approach to managing ... The U.S. auto companies have not established local manufacturing in Japan since the prewar period and have struggled to rebuild quality dealer networks.
Fortune
February 12, 2018
Park had grown up under Japanese rule and received training in Japanese military schools. He twice dropped his Korean name, taking on Japanese names instead. After assuming the presidency in 1963, he embraced elements of Japanese militarism, and he pushed South Korea to emulate Japan'sÃâà...
The Japan Times
December 16, 2017
In an old magazine photo, a baby enjoys “children's heaven” — perched in a tank-shaped stroller and, the caption jokes, going to Manchuria. In a manga released by U.S. Forces Japan, two cute doe-eyed characters — the bunny-boy Mr. USA and the Japanese schoolgirl Ms. Alliance — discuss playfullyÃâà...
The Japan Times
December 31, 1999
But the South Korean government may be reluctant to working with the Self-Defense Forces, whose existence is controversial for the country, which suffered under Japanese militarism before and during World War II. South Korea's monitoring activities have been limited to waters near its shores and theÃâà...
