‘History war’: Japan’s far-right slams Chinese and South Korean films ahead of WWII event
Two films, 731 and Harbin, have drawn criticism from a politician for fuelling anti-Japan sentiment before WWII’s 80th ...
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One Chinese American couple’s WWII journey from China to U.S.
Britain defeats China in the first Opium War, opening China to Western powers for trade, Christian missions, and legalizin ...
Why Close Trade Partners China and Japan Can’t Get Along
China and Japan are two of Asia’s most powerful nations and the region’s biggest trading partners. Yet centuries of intense ...
Japanese cabinet earmarks record 8.7 trillion yen for war
Tokyo has all but thrown out the legal limitations set in Article 9 of the constitution, which bans Japan from acquiring ...
Why are Chinese, South Korean films on war crimes in WW2 stirring controversy in Japan?
Imperial Japan is known to have committed several war crimes in China and South Korea during the Second World War. The films shed light on this wartime brutality, including live human testing ...
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Chinese man arrested after Japanese shrine vandalised
In 2014, when then prime minister Shinzo Abe visited the shrine, China said the visit reflected "the erroneous attitude towards history ... Japanese colonialism and its war of aggression".
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75 years later, Japan’s second world war orphans talk about their pain and recovery
“All Chinese are victims, and so are the Japanese civilians ... and orphans feel they were forgotten by history and by their leaders. Post-war governments have provided an accumulated ...
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How a Chinese filmmaker brought a forgotten British WWII tragedy back to life
Seven years ago, while filming on an island off the coast of eastern China, Fang Li learned about a Japanese prisoner ... on knowing a lot about history and World War Two in the Asia Pacific ...