Last year, viral “Barbenheimer” memes sparked anger online in Japan, where media reports have highlighted critics who say the film does not show the damage caused by the bombs. “There could have been more detail and depiction of the horrors of nuclear weapons,” Takashi Hiraoka, 96, a bombing survivor and former mayor of Hiroshima, said […]
Rota stepped down, saying he was “deeply sorry for his mistake” and the pain it has caused Jewish communities in Canada and elsewhere. Trudeau’s government is under intense pressure over the case, which Conservative opposition leader Pierre Poilievre has described as “the biggest diplomatic embarrassment” in Canadian history. At the high-profile event for Zelensky, Rota […]
Kishida, whose family comes from Hiroshima, said, “The devastation caused by nuclear weapons in Hiroshima and Nagasaki can never be repeated.” Kishida’s comments match those of UN chief Antonio Guterres, who issued a statement on the anniversary of Hiroshima saying that “some countries are recklessly wielding the nuclear saber once again, and have the right […]
Russian economy Although the West has imposed unprecedented sanctions on Russia because of the war in Ukraine, the economy of the world’s biggest producer of natural resources has shown resilience. Putin says Russia is now turning away from the West and will trade with Asian powers such as China and India. “The situation in the […]
For this reason, and again with the support of Washington, Japan is looking for new security partners to support it militarily and diplomatically. That effort, for now, has focused on countries that are also strong US allies, including Australia, Britain and France. Tokyo is also seeking closer security ties with India, which as a member […]
Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko said on Tuesday in comments published by the state TASS news agency that Japan’s “anti-Russian course” makes peace treaty talks impossible. Russia and Japan have not formally ended World War II hostilities because of their standoff over the islands, not far from Japan’s northernmost island of Hokkaido captured by […]
A court on Tuesday convicted a 97-year-old former Nazi camp secretary of complicity in the murder of more than 10,000 people in what could be Germany’s last Holocaust trial. Presiding Judge Dominik Gross handed down a two-year suspended sentence to Irmgard Furchner for her role in what prosecutors called the “brutal and malicious murder” of […]
‘the last of its kind’ The respondent was a juvenile when the alleged offenses were committed and was therefore tried in the Juvenile Court. Prosecutors said an estimated 65,000 people died in the camp near today’s Gdańsk, including “Jewish prisoners, Polish partisans and Soviet Russian prisoners of war”. Between June 1943 and April 1945, Furchner […]
mobilization Of the 300,000 reservists called up in September and October, about 150,000 were deployed to Ukraine, in 77,000 combat units, Putin said. The remaining 150,000 were still in training centres. “Under these circumstances, it makes no sense to talk about any additional mobilization measures,” Putin said. Russia’s economy has overcome a short-term slump caused […]