Japan won't join UN meeting on nuclear weapons ban, citing support for US deterrence
TOKYO (AP) — Japan will not attend a U.N. conference on the treaty banning nuclear weapons, a top government official in ...
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Volunteer searching for WWII dead in Japanese caves unearths remains of hundreds of people
The remains of some 1,400 people sit in storage for possible identification with DNA testing. So far just six have been identified and returned to their families.
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Museum offers new home to gun St. Paulites used to fire first American shots of WWII
A round from Gun No. 3 smashed through the mini-sub ... but they had just fired the first American shots of World War II. Japanese warplanes began bombing Pearl Harbor about an hour later.
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Iwo Jima veteran recalls ‘terrible, terrible’ battle 80 years after WWII
His 10 days at Iwo Jima were a “terrible, terrible experience with dead people everywhere,” he told Stars and Stripes in a ...
Okinawan bone digger searches for the remains of WWII dead and worries their lessons are unheard
Takamatsu Gushiken hunts caves in Okinawa’s jungles for the bones of those who died in the WWII Battle of Okinawa, one of the ...
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Japan won't join UN meeting on nuclear weapons ban, citing support for US deterrence
TOKYO — Japan will not attend a U.N. conference ... U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II. Japan, despite being the only victim of the nuclear attacks ...
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Japan won't join UN meeting on nuclear weapons ban
The UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was approved in 2017 and went into force in 2021 following a decades-long campaign aimed at preventing a repeat of the US atomic bombings of ...