Japan
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How Japan and China’s History Impacts Taiwan
Wars between the Chinese and Japanese span the centuries. Their animosity is understandable, given the ongoing brutal wars and conquests.
Feminist Antipathy Toward Conservative Female Leaders
Despite claiming to stand for helping women rise to be equal with men, feminists don’t like conservative women who succeed because it’s actually about ideology.
Japan Inks Latest Tariff Deal With U.S.
Trump’s tariffs had the media screaming with panic, but given time and negotiation, they are beginning to produce the desired trade deals with important other nations.
Easing the Strains Between Japan and South Korea
As world attention has recently been focused elsewhere, longstanding tensions between two critical U.S. allies, Japan and South Korea, have quietly been easing. This is the result of initiatives by the leaders of both countries, as well as the concerted efforts of diplomats. That’s good news for Washington, since together the three nations can better address common security challenges and achieve shared diplomatic and economic objectives.
China Has Its Own Horrors to Atone For
Japan’s less-than-wholehearted remorse for its World War II-era atrocities has long been an unhealed wound in its relations with its neighbors. The bruise is throbbing anew with the approach of August 15, the 70th anniversary of the announcement of Japan’s surrender. China’s ambassador to Tokyo revived the topic on July 23, when he pointedly advised Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe — who plans to deliver a speech marking the anniversary — to convey genuine contrition for the suffering caused by Japan’s aggression. “We will be watching how Japan sums up its past and shows sincerity to the victimized countries,” said the ambassador. Abe and other Japanese leaders have acknowledged their country’s crimes during the war, but their apologies have tended to be grudging or awkward. Frequently they have been undermined by truculent rationalizations, or by suggestions that Japan’s ugliest wartime offenses might still be open to debate.