Burning memories: Tokyo reflects on the night 50 years ago that U.S. bombers set it ablaze

Article Abstract:

The 50th anniversary of the Mar 9, 1945, firebombing of Tokyo has evoked many forms of remembrance and sorrow on all sides. The event is little discussed among Japanese families, and no permanent museum memorializes the event, but many who lived through it have taken the opportunity to recollect that night and to share their thought and experiences with younger generations. Few individual Americans express remorse for the deed and most Japanese bear no specific grudge, but many on both sides showed sorrow.

Personal narratives, History, Tokyo, Japan, Japanese history, Bombing, Aerial, Aerial bombing

---

Cooking up memories

Article Abstract:

Chairman Mao Zedong did a great deal to help the ordinary people of China, according to Tang Ruiren, who was brought up in Mao's hometown and met him in 1959, when she was 30 years old. She was so inspired by his concern for ordinary people that she later opened the Mao Family Restaurant, which overlooks the house where he was brought up. This establishment now attracts more than 100 visitors a day and is complemented by three affiliated outlets, in Harbin, Beijing and Guangzhou.

Eating places, Restaurants & Food Service, Food Services and Drinking Places, Influence, Interview, Restaurateurs, Mao Zedong, Tang Ruiren

---

Ghosts gathering: comfort women issue haunts Tokyo as pressure mounts

Article Abstract:

Comfort women, who are young Korean, Chinese, Filipino, Burmese and Dutch girls forced into being sex slaves for the Japanese Imperial soldiersin World War II, have finally decided to reveal the brutalities they have experienced in the hands of the Japanese soldiers and demand public apology andcompensation from Japan. Korean women brought up the issue in 1988 but Japan initially denied forcing the women and claimed to have settled all issues with South Korea in 1965.

Social aspects, Analysis, Cover Story, Korea, Rape victims, Atrocities, Women in war

Similar abstracts:

• Abstracts: Austria: Safety measures to protect night time workers. Lawmaker in limbo. Grounds for discrimination: establishing criteria for evaluating health services
• Abstracts: The Bridget Jones economy. America's parasite economy: the papers that ate America. Not that good: Turkey's economy
• Abstracts: Eyes on the stars, feet on the ground. Gravity's elusive ripples
• Abstracts: The tiniest transplants. Courting abuse: memories "recovered" in therapy should not be allowed in court. A non-fatal inversion: gene therapy
• Abstracts: Return of the nativist. Return of the emirs: Uzbekistan. The return of the not-so natives

This website is not affiliated with document authors or copyright owners. This page is provided for informational purposes only. Unintentional errors are possible.