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Yesterday, UK Prime Minister John Major unveiled the Government’s plans to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the end of World War II. Today, he was present as a weekend of events planned for the 19th and...
Nick Wood speaks to Yashujiko Shigemoto, survivor of the first atomic bomb - dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 06/08/45. The interview coincides with the fiftieth anniversary of the event.
Lecturer of Japanese literature at the University of California in Los Angeles, Professor Masao Miyoshi, was in Tokyo throughout the Second World War but after it ended moved to the United States. Here he...
Arthur Titherington from the Japanese Labour Camp Survivors Association on the supposed letter of apology form the Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama to John Major. He is incensed by the dithering of...
The unseemly row over whether the Japanese Prime Minister did or did not apologise on behalf of the Japanese people for the atrocities of the Second World War and the treatment of prisoners of war rumbled...
Brian Williams, correspondent in Tokyo attempts to explain the letter sent by Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama to John Major and whether it was an apology for World War II Japanese atrocities and...
Reuter’s Niho Yoshikawa in Tokyo reports on the contents of a letter sent by Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama to UK Premier John Major. Japan says its Prime Minister’s letter to John Major was...
Japan’s Prime Minister may have apologised for atrocities committed against allied prisoners of war fifty years ago, but the fight for compensation goes on. Japan maintains the matter of money was...
Nick Wood reports on a memorial service in Tokyo, Japan to their war dead on the fiftieth anniversary of their surrender at the end of the Second World War. Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama made a statement...
Nick Wood reports on the Japanese surrender fifty years ago that brought the Second World War to an end. Includes speeches by President Harry Truman calling for Japan to surrender and announcing surrender;...
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