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The Editorial Board of the New York Times on August 12, 2013 under the title “Chinese Foot-Dragging” wrote “If there is ever going to be an end to tensions over the South China Sea, one of the world’s most strategically important waterways, countries in the region need to find a way to work out their […]

More than 67 years have elapsed since the end of World War II (WWII).  Yet the Japanese government still has not acknowledged or apologized for the massive, inhumane atrocities that the Japanese Imperial Army inflicted all over Asia during WWII.  Soon there won’t be any more living sex slave (euphemistically called Comfort Woman by the […]

  History of the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands Dispute:  During the past half year a territorial dispute between Japan and China over a small group of uninhabited islands (called Diaoyu Islands by the Chinese and Senkaku Islands by the Japanese) in the East China Sea has increased significantly in intensity so that both sides have sent military […]

One of the most horrific atrocities committed in human history was the Nanking Massacre.  During a six-week period beginning on December 13, 1937 in Nanking, the then capital of China, the Japanese Imperial Army slaughtered approximately 300,000 Chinese (most were civilians, including women and children) and raped approximately 20,000 women and girls (including great grandmothers […]