Japan and South Korea stress need for better ties before key court decision

South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin and Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi ahead of their talks in Tokyo in July | REUTERS

Seoul – The Japanese and South Korean foreign ministers on Saturday underscored the need for improving bilateral relations strained over wartime issues, as South Korea’s top court is expected to make a relevant decision soon. “There has never been a time when progress in Japan-South Korea, Japan-U.S.-South Korea cooperation is more important than now,” Foreign

Poland seeks €1.3 trillion from Germany in reparations for Nazi occupation

Poland seeks €1.3 trillion from Germany in reparations for Nazi occupation

Issued on: 01/09/2022 – 16:51 Poland’s government on Thursday estimated the financial cost of World War II losses to be 1.3 trillion euros and said it would “ask Germany to negotiate these reparations”. Jaroslaw Kaczynski, leader of the ruling Law and Justice party (PiS), announced the huge claim at the release of a long-awaited report

War-displaced Japanese on Philippine island stand up to claim roots

Margarette Lumauag (right) and her second-generation Nikkei mother Veronica Sabando in their home in Puerto Princesa, a coastal city on the island province Palawan in the Philippines, on July 21. | KYODO

PUERTO PRINCESA, Philippines – Seventy-seven years on, war-displaced Filipino Japanese descendants on an island province in the western Philippines continue to struggle to openly claim their roots. But the descendants, known as Nikkei, who reside in Palawan, where anti-Japanese sentiment has run deep due to the casualties incurred on the island during World War II,

80 years ago Anne Frank started her diary, a landmark of world literature

80 years ago Anne Frank started her diary, a landmark of world literature

Issued on: 12/06/2022 – 09:01Modified: 12/06/2022 – 10:05 Thirteen-year-old Anne Frank began keeping her now-famous diary on June 12, 1942. She would spend a little more than two years confiding in its pages, sharing stories from daily life, observations, and hopes for the future from the cramped annex in Amsterdam she occupied with her family and several other

Vladimir Putin vows ‘as in 1945, victory will be ours’ in Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to the advisory council of the Russian Parliament in Saint Petersburg on April 27. | SPUTNIK / VIA AFP-JIJI

Moscow – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday vowed that “as in 1945, victory will be ours” as he congratulated former Soviet nations on the 77th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s defeat in World War II. “Today, our soldiers, as their ancestors, are fighting side by side to liberate their native land from the Nazi filth

50 years after return to Japan, gap remains between Okinawa and rest of country

A shopping arcade in Naha. Among the country's 47 prefectures, Okinawa's average income per capita has stayed at the bottom since fiscal 1989 and the prefecture's child poverty rate stands at 29.9%, more than twice the national average. | REUTERS

It will mark the 50th anniversary of its return to Japan on May 15 this year.Since the unique law on advancement in Okinawa was enacted in 1972, the main government has actually taken numerous measures to fix variations between the prefecture and the rest of the country.On Thursday, parliament passed into law a bill to

Biden vows ‘never again’ in marking 80 years since Japanese American internment

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks at the White House on Friday. | AFP-JIJI

” Despite never being charged with a crime, and without due process, Japanese Americans were by force eliminated from their homes and communities and put behind bars, just since of their heritage,” Biden said.For years, numerous Japanese Americans lived in extreme, overcrowded conditions, surrounded by armed guards and barbed-wire fences. They not only lost their

France to return 15 artworks stolen from Jews during WWII

France to return 15 artworks stolen from Jews during WWII

The vote authorises public museums holding the works, including the world-famous Musée dOrsay in Paris, to turn over the home to the successors of the original owners.French Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot welcomed the “historic” move.It was the very first time in 70 years that the French federal government had made major steps to return artworks

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