Showing posts with label WWII. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WWII. Show all posts

Friday, April 21, 2023

South Korean Foreign Ministry Criticizes Kishidas Ritual Offering To Yasukuni Shrine

South Korean Foreign Ministry Criticizes Kishidas Ritual Offering To Yasukuni Shrine

South Korea has expressed "deep disappointment and regret" over Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's ritual offering to the Yasukuni shrine, the South Korean Foreign Ministry said on Friday.

Tuesday, January 10, 2023

Poland Asks US Congress To Solicit War Reparations From Germany

Poland Asks US Congress To Solicit War Reparations From Germany

Poland is asking for the US Congress' help in making Germany agree to paying reparations for the damage inflicted on Warsaw during the Second World War, the Polish government's envoy for reparations, Arkadiusz Mularczyk, said on Tuesday.

Tuesday, January 3, 2023

Poland Asks UN for Help in Extracting War Reparations from Germany

War Reparations from Germany

Arkadiusz Mularczyk, a senior official spearheading Poland’s demands for wartime reparations from Germany, said on Tuesday that Warsaw had asked the United Nations for help in receiving war reparations from Berlin.

Thursday, December 1, 2022

About 500 Japanese Nationals Rally In Tokyo To Reclaim Southern Kuril Islands

Southern Kuril Islands

About 500 Japanese nationals, including former residents of the Kuril Islands and Hokkaido administration officials, took part in a rally held in Tokyo to reclaim the Russian-controlled Southern Kuril islands, which Japan refers to as its Northern Territories, media reported on Thursday.

Friday, November 11, 2022

Polish nationalists demand ‘loyalty’ from Ukrainians

Ukrainian Insurgent Army

The Confederation of the Polish Crown party has proposed legislation that would require Ukrainian citizens living in Poland to proclaim “loyalty” to Warsaw and condemn historical crimes against Poles committed by Ukrainian nationalists.

Tuesday, September 20, 2022

World running risk of sliding into global-scale conflict in couple of months — Vucic

global-scale conflict

 The world is running the risk of sliding into a global-scale conflict it has nor seen since World War II in a couple of months, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday.

Monday, June 7, 2021

S. Korean court dismisses damages suit against Japanese firms by WWII forced labor victims - Xinhua

S. Korean court dismisses damages suit against Japanese firms by WWII forced labor victims

(Xinhua) -- A South Korean court on Monday dismissed the damages suit against 16 Japanese firms, filed by a total of 84 South Korean victims who were forced into heavy labor without pay during the World War II (WWII) and the bereaved families.

Sunday, May 9, 2021

UN remembers the dead of WWII - China.org.cn

UN remembers the dead of WWII

The Second World War had a profound impact on the international community, and established the conditions for the creation of the United Nations. This weekend marks the official remembrance of the tens of millions of civilians and soldiers who died during the conflict, UN News reported on Saturday.

Wednesday, April 21, 2021

South Korea Court Dismisses comfort Women Case Against Japan - UrduPoint

South Korea Court Dismisses comfort Women Case Against Japan


A South Korean court on Wednesday dismissed a case brought by a handful of World War II sex slaves and their families against the Japanese government, citing Tokyo's "sovereign immunity", reports said.

Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Removal of Manila statue condemned

bronze statue honoring comfort women in Manila
Philippine women's rights groups have strongly condemned the removal of the comfort woman statue in Manila, calling it "a desecration of Filipino women's dignity."

Saturday, April 21, 2018

Japan irks South Korea by offering ritual to controversial war dead at shrine

Yasukuni Shrine
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent a ritual offering to the Yasukuni Shrine for the war dead, the shrine said on Saturday, prompting criticism from Seoul as it is seen in the two Koreas and China as a symbol of Japan's past militarism.

Monday, February 26, 2018

China: Planned lawsuit targets tourists who posed in Japanese uniforms

behaviors that deny the Nanjing Massacre and profane the war martyrs and sites
A law league in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing plans to file a public interest lawsuit against two men for posing in front of war ruins in Japanese army uniforms.

Thursday, February 1, 2018

Polish senate passes Holocaust bill slammed by Israel

Polish senate passes Holocaust bill slammed by Israel
Poland's senate has passed a controversial Holocaust bill, which was designed to defend the country's image abroad but has instead sparked a diplomatic row with Israel.

Tuesday, December 26, 2017

S. Korean foreign minister sees lack of communications with sex slavery victims in deal with Japan

comfort women
South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha said Tuesday that the agreement with Japan in December 2015 lacked communications with South Korean victims who were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese army during World War II.

Tuesday, December 5, 2017

More than 60 Japanese MPs visit controversial Yasukuni shrine

Tokyo's controversial Yasukuni Shrine
A group of more than 60 Japanese MPs on Tuesday visited Tokyo's controversial Yasukuni Shrine, linked to the country's militaristic past, and which has been a source of diplomatic tension between Japan and its Asian neighbors for years.

Saturday, September 23, 2017

Former Japanese residents of Kurile Islands make trip to visit ancestors’ graves

Kurile Islands
A chartered flight took a group of Japanese from the city of Nakashibetsu, Hokkaido prefecture, to Russia on Saturday so that they could visit their ancestors’ graves on the Kurile Islands, Japan’s Foreign Ministry said.