Commentary / World Aug 26, 2014

Brace for the coming CLASS war

by Andrew Sheng

The balkanization of global banking by the U.S.' requiring all foreign banks in the country to become subsidiary companies and international banks with U.S.-dollar clearing accounts to comply to some degree with U.S. foreign policy by refraining from trading with U.S. enemies defines a ...

Shrapnel in leg Leyte man's war memento

National Feb 11, 2014

Shrapnel in leg Leyte man's war memento

by Ronron Calunsod

Many elderly people in the Philippines have made it their task in life to tell the younger generation of their ordeals during World War II in a bid to prevent war from ever happening again. One of those survivors is 80-year-old Alejandro Devaras, who has ...

Memories of war's victims, victimizers

National / History Aug 14, 2013

Memories of war's victims, victimizers

by Keiji Hirano

A freelance photojournalist has recorded the individual histories of 70 survivors of the war at home and abroad to show how they acted during wartime and how their experiences affected the rest of their lives. "I wanted to record the testimonies of war survivors as ...

National / Politics Mar 8, 2013

Wartime diplomat deplored Japan's backward encryption tech

A Japanese diplomat wrote shortly after World War II that Japan's theoretical and technical knowhow on encrypting sensitive information was woefully underdeveloped during the hostilities, declassified diplomatic records Thursday showed. Kazuji Kameyama, who had previously headed the telegram division of the Foreign Ministry, wrote in ...

Driven to shoot on the frontlines

Art Feb 14, 2013

Driven to shoot on the frontlines

by C.B. Liddell

The camera never lies — or does it? The double-barreled exhibition now on at the Yokohama Museum of Art suggests that it doesn't always tell the truth either. "Two Photographers: Robert Capa Centennial/ Gerda Taro Retrospective" is a time-traveling trip back to the middle of ...