Category Page for: Japan-History
Iwo Jima General’s Letter to Roosevelt
» by GI Korea December 13th, 2006 at 9:17 am » Comments (0)
Japan Probe has an interesting posting about a letter sent by a Japanese General on Iwo Jima to President Roosevelt. This General's views about WWII are almost word for ...more »SK Government Attempts to Rewrite War Criminal History
» by GI Korea November 17th, 2006 at 11:19 pm » Comments (1)
There is some interesting debate going on over at the Marmot's Hole over a Korean Government's Truth CommissionTM report absolving 83 World War II war criminals of Korean ethnicity that ...more »Interview with Yuko Tojo
» by GI Korea August 28th, 2005 at 7:13 am » Comments (6)
Oh My News has an interesting interview with Yuko Tojo who is the daughter of World War II era Japanese leader and convicted war criminal General Hideki Tojo. Here is ...more »The Victims of the Atomic Bombings
» by GI Korea August 9th, 2005 at 4:43 am » Comments (1)
Many of you that follow my blog know that I criticize Oh My News every once in a while. I maintain that Oh My News is an interesting concept it ...more »Japanese Textbooks Criticized in Japan
» by GI Korea August 4th, 2005 at 4:52 am » Comments (2)
New Japanese textbooks that whitewash Japan's colonial history and involvement in World War II continue to be criticized by Japanese NGO's: Japanese textbooks that exercised the country’s colonial victims for months ...more »Never Ending Textbook Controversy
» by GI Korea July 16th, 2005 at 4:08 am » Comments (7)
The never ending Japanese textbook debate continues with the Japanese Board of Education in the city of Otawara approving the new controversial Japanese history textbook. The books are mired in ...more »Imperial Japanese Soldier May Not Exist After All
» by GI Korea May 30th, 2005 at 8:13 am » Comments (0)
Recently there have been reports of Imperial Japanese Army soldiers left over from World War II being found in the mountains of the Phillipines. Check out Oranckay's blog for more ...more »1945 Tokyo Fire Bombing
» by GI Korea March 13th, 2005 at 5:29 am » Comments (2)
Here is an editorial from the Asahi Shimbun about the 1945 fire bombing of Tokyo. March 10 marked the 60th anniversary of the U.S. fire-bombing of Tokyo, an event which claimed ...more »




