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South Korean court orders Japan to compensate former sex slaves: Yonhap

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 08 10:40 AM

A South Korean court on Friday ordered the Japanese government to pay compensation to 12 World War II sex slaves or their families, in an unprecedented ruling likely to infuriate Tokyo. Read more »

Footnotes to Ninoy Aquino vignettes

Buddy Gomez — Cyberbuddy
Posted at Jan 02 12:37 AM

Benigno Aquino Sr. was NOT a traitor during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. This is a classic example of maliciously deceptive opinionated ignorance. Let me put it to rest. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: December 29, 2020

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 29 11:38 PM

Here are the big stories today in photos. Read more »

Honoring a WWII U.S. Jewish soldier at the Manila American Cemetery

Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 29 02:31 PM

Representatives of the Embassy of Israel and Operation Benjamin leave small stones on the gravestone of U.S. Cpl. Sam Cordova as an act of remembrance on his 79th death anniversary, during the headstone changing rites at the American Cemetery in Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City, Tuesday. Read more »

Trump spy chief labels China 'biggest threat to freedom' since World War 2

Mark Hosenball, Reuters
Posted at Dec 04 05:38 AM

WASHINGTON - The top US intelligence official stepped up President Donald Trump's harsh attacks on Beijing on Thursday by labeling China the biggest threat to democracy and freedom worldwide since World War Two and saying it was bent on global domination. Read more »

He escaped death as a kamikaze pilot; 70 years later, he told his story

Ben Dooley, The New York Times
Posted at Dec 03 08:01 PM

TOKYO — For more than six decades, Kazuo Odachi had a secret: At the age of 17, he became a kamikaze pilot, one of thousands of young Japanese men tasked to give their lives in last-ditch suicide missions near the end of World War II. Read more »

France says Jeddah blast wounds several, condemns 'cowardly attack'

Reuters
Posted at Nov 11 08:56 PM

France's Foreign Ministry said the attack had taken place at a ceremony marking the end of World War One and that several people had been wounded as a result of an explosive device.   Read more »

Makabayan bloc rejects push to sell war reparation assets in Japan, cites symbolic value

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 10 04:04 PM

The Philippine government's war reparation assets in Japan should not be sold as they hold "symbolic value" to the country, especially to war veterans who fought during the Japanese occupation, according to lawmakers of the Makabayan bloc Tuesday, as they made their case against attempts to dispose of the properties. Read more »

'Choking on blood': AFP's report on final day of Nuremberg trials

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 09 01:14 PM

On the last day of the Nuremberg trials, the top surviving Nazi leaders made their final speeches from the dock, with most trying to minimize their role in the regime's crimes.    Read more »

WWII bomb goes off in Poland during defusal op

Stanislaw Waszak and Anna Maria Jakubek, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 14 03:53 AM

The device -- nicknamed "Tallboy" and also known as an "earthquake bomb" -- was dropped by the Royal Air Force in an attack on a Nazi warship in 1945. Read more »

Massive WWII 'earthquake bomb' found near Baltic Sea

Stanislaw Waszak, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 12 02:03 PM

The five-ton device -- nicknamed "Tallboy" and also known as an "earthquake bomb - was designed to explode underground next to a target, triggering shock waves that would cause destruction. The bomb is six meters (19 feet) long and has 2.4 tons of explosives. Read more »

Japan regrets new Korean "comfort women" statue set up in Berlin

Kyodo News
Posted at Sep 29 05:35 PM

Japan regrets the recent installation in Berlin of a statue of a girl symbolizing Korean women who were forced to work in Japanese wartime military brothels, its top government spokesman said Tuesday. Read more »

2 men working to map World War II bombs are killed by one

Livia Albeck-Ripka, The New York Times
Posted at Sep 22 07:18 AM

An Australian and a Briton working to map a deadly legacy of unexploded munitions from World War II have been killed in the South Pacific nation of the Solomon Islands after a bomb they were working on detonated. Read more »

'Second Pearl Harbor': Locsin opposes 'plot' to sell PH properties in Japan

Willard Cheng, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 14 04:43 PM

Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin, Jr. expressed opposition to a proposal to sell four of the Philippines’ properties in Japan, exposing the “plot” as “a second Pearl Harbor perpetrated by Filipinos on our own patrimony.” Read more »

TikTok Holocaust videos 'hurtful', says Auschwitz museum

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Aug 27 09:56 AM

POLAND - The Auschwitz museum on Wednesday called a new trend for users of video-sharing platform TikTok to role-play Holocaust victims "hurtful and offensive," but added that it did not want to shame young people involved. Read more »

'World War Z': Duque pleads for health workers' 'patriotism' in COVID-19 battle

Christian V. Esguerra, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Aug 21 09:38 PM

(UPDATED) - Health Secretary Francisco Duque III on Friday sought to rally medical workers behind the government's COVID-19 response, saying the country was staring at a protracted "war" as cases continued the pile up. Read more »

Japan marks 75th anniversary of World War II surrender

Charly Trinalleau, AFP
Posted at Aug 15 12:48 PM

People pray at the Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo, Saturday on the 75th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II.  Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: August 14, 2020

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 15 02:11 AM

Here are the day's top stories in photos. Read more »

Omikuji offering

Philip Fong, AFP
Posted at Aug 14 11:40 PM

A visitor attaches a fortune telling slip of paper, also known as "omikuji", to a display during her visit to Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Friday, one day before the 75th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II. Read more »

Nagasaki marks 75th anniversary of U.S. atomic bombing

Ayano Shimizu, Kyodo News
Updated as of Aug 09 12:16 PM

The mayor of Nagasaki on Sunday pushed the Japanese government to take more action toward realizing a world free of nuclear weapons, amid a global retreat of leadership on the issue, at a memorial ceremony on the 75th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city. Read more »