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Five years today since the Fukushima earthquake and subsequent nuclear power plant disaster. Some links for this anniversary. The power plant is still leaking radioactive substances into the ocean, although.
Setsuko Hara, one of the greatest actors in film historym has died. Hara worked with most of the great Japanese directors of the postwar era, but.
The level of denial in Japan over forced prostitution, rape, and colonized Korean "comfort women" in World War II is remarkable. Instead, the Japanese government's narrative is that Japan is.
The scourge of companies subcontracting labor in order to maximize profit continues. Tokyo Electric Power Company runs the damaged Fukushima nuclear reactor. Rather than employ the cleanup workers itself, it.

It should be blindingly obvious by now that no country is going to sacrifice anything meaningful, and especially economic growth, to reduce emissions enough to dent the impact of climate.
More Farley's beat, but this footage of air warfare from Japanese archives in 1945 is pretty amazing to watch.

Interesting (slightly old) piece on Isoruku Yamamoto in Japanese historical memory: Unlike the Yushukan museum at the controversial Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, the Yamamoto museum does not appear to re-write.
This week's Diplomat column takes a look at COIN in the Second Sino-Japanese War, based on the Murray-Mansoor edited volume Hybrid Warfare: Yamaguchi suggests that elements of the Japanese Army.