The sharper edge to traveling in Asia

WoWasis book review: ‘Yankee Samurai,’ Nisei working for the US in WWII, by Joseph Harrington

Author Joseph D. Harrington has written an informative and insightful history of the Nisei (Americans of Japanese Ancestry, or AJAs, the first generation to be born outside of Japan, and children of Issei, their Japanese-born parents living in the United States),  working for the U.S. armed forces in the Pacific during World War II. Yankee […]

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Korean Comfort Woman confronts Japan at her Korean embassy in Seoul, 24 x 7, 365 days a year

the placement of a sculpture of a Korean comfort woman outside Japan’s embassy in Seoul plays havoc with Japanese sensibilities

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