TOKYO—Eight decades ago, when Japan’s kamikaze pilots were crashing their planes into American ships and its soldiers were dying from the Aleutian Islands to Guadalcanal, all were given the same promise: Upon death, their souls would be enshrined at Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine. This April, Umio Otsuka, a retired vice admiral in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force or navy, became Yasukuni …
A school board in southeastern Wisconsin has rejected a book recommended for use in a 10th-grade accelerated English class due in part to concerns that it lacked “balance” regarding the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Kontney is the board’s newest member, having been elected in April on a platform that included, “CRITICAL THINKING NOT CRITICAL RACE THEORY.” …
Experts say younger patients are developing severe COVID-19 symptoms and dying, as hospitals are pushed to the brink. Younger patients In a report on Friday, Brazilian public health institute Fiocruz also found that the country’s COVID epidemic is getting younger. We’re dealing with a substantial number of severe patients in their 30s to 50s,” Dr Anne Menezes from Getulio Vargas …
