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But, as long as the Japanese left used history to make this political argument, the nationalists pushed back by claiming that stories of wartime atrocities had been greatly exaggerated.
After all, a Japan that is isolated in Asia will be even more dependent on the US, the wartime victor, which Abe and his nationalist allies hold responsible for the postwar order that they seek to revise.
There had never been any evidence showing that Americans of Japanese provenance in the US furnished assistance to the wartime enemy.
It is true that Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt spoke in their wartime "Atlantic Charter" about the right to freedom from want and fear (whatever that may mean), and Thomas Jefferson said that all men have the right pursue their "happiness," but such so-called "rights" can never be made into more than desired goals.
But the skills needed for leadership of a wartime governing council are very different from those needed to run a sovereign state.
Myths about his wartime heroism and divine status soon followed, and a cult of personality was established.
But if Asia is to move beyond its past, the victims of Japan’s wartime aggression must recognize that the Japan of 2015 is not the Japan of 1931, 1941, or even 1945, and that, as many Asian leaders have realized over the years, forgiveness benefits everyone.
During a visit to South Korea last July, President Xi Jinping highlighted not only the two countries’ deepening economic relationship, but also their shared views regarding Japan’s wartime past.
Wars Against WomenAMSTERDAM – Truth is often said to be the first casualty in wartime.
Yet the perpetrators of wartime mass rape and other forms of sexual violence usually are not prosecuted.
People in the territory of what is now Slovakia have lived in seven different states and under five different political systems in the 20th century, from the liberal autocracy of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1901-1918), through the liberal democracy of the inter-war Czechoslovak Republic (1918-1939), to the fascist wartime Slovak state (1939-1945), back to a Czechoslovak liberal democracy (1945-1948), then to the communist Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (1948-1989), the liberal democracy of the Czechoslovak Federative Republic (1989-1992).
But at least the fate of the more than one million Turkish Armenians killed outright or death-marched into the Syrian desert in 1915 for their wartime “disloyalty” remains the subject of immense international scrutiny, research, and advocacy.
But there may be a lesson from a country whose wartime rulers, quarrelling among themselves, inflicted unimaginable harm on their people and to the world with their mendacious, secretive, and paranoid style.
But, when conducted during wartime, risks abound.
Of course, Poland is not the only country that has been tempted to edit history in ways that play down complicity in wartime crimes perpetrated against Jews and others.
Bush Loses in the Supreme Court and America WinsTwo rulings of the United States Supreme Court this week rejected the sweeping wartime powers claimed by President Bush.
Moreover, they argue that Japan has yet to come fully to terms with its colonial and wartime record.
Finally, rather than protesting the way Japan's WWII activities are described in US textbooks or squabbling over the number of people murdered during the Nanjing massacre, Japan should seek to help its own citizens understand and process their country's wartime record.
Just a few months ago, the bilateral relationship had sunk to an all-time post-war low, owing to a toxic cocktail of territorial disputes over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands, Japan’s handling of its wartime history (particularly prime ministerial visits to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine), and Chinese fears about Japanese rearmament.
That number has grown over the years, as Soviet officials broadened the definition of wartime deaths to mean total “population loss,” rather than direct military casualties.
Wartime inflation destroyed stability in the Russian empire in 1917, as farmers, worried about the declining value of their money, hoarded their output and let the cities starve.
At the most basic level, there were not enough gold reserves around to back the monetary needs of a growing world economy, especially since the prices of goods had risen sharply as a result of wartime money printing.
While large deficits are usually undesirable, sometimes they can be benign or even desirable, such as in recession, wartime, or when used to finance productive public investment.
Unlike in Germany, Japan had no Hitler or Nazi party on which to blame their wartime atrocities.
The Japanese were not ready for it and Kishi was tainted by his wartime record as Minister of Munitions.
He would like to restore some aspects of an older Japan, discredited by Japanese military behavior, such as patriotic pride, a more central role for the imperial institution, and even a reappraisal of Japan’s wartime record itself.
When Winston Churchill suggested in 1945 that the British people should vote in a referendum on whether to continue the wartime coalition government, the Labour leader Clement Attlee opposed it.
In wartime, it may be reasonable to concentrate on the production of goods needed to win.
Meanwhile, politicians saw how wartime production had driven massive GNP growth and decided to keep that economic metric growing at any cost.
Unfortunately, the Japanese government, despite much circumstantial and even documentary evidence supplied by Japanese historians, now chooses to deny the wartime regime’s responsibility for this ghastly project.
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