Political violence in Japan is rare. It’s the day that the longest-serving prime minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, was assassinated. Stabbed to death On 4 November 1921, Takashi Hara, who established Japan’s full-fledged party Cabinet system and was known as the first commoner to become the prime minister was stabbed to death at Tokyo Station by a young railway worker. …
TOKYO — When Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941, the first thing Hidekazu Tamura, a Japanese American living in California, thought was, “I’ll be killed at the hands of my fellow Americans.” It wouldn’t be the last time he felt that way. He was sent to Tule Lake, a segregation center for those deemed disloyal, where he joined a group …
The missing Japanese make up about half of the 2.4 million soldiers who died overseas during Japan’s military rampage across Asia. Seventy-five years after the end of World War II, more than 1 million Japanese war dead are scattered throughout Asia, where the legacy of Japanese aggression still hampers recovery efforts. The missing Japanese make up about half of the …
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