Japan – The USA Potato

In late June, during public commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Okinawa—one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific War that resulted in over 240,000 deaths—local authorities called for a reduction of the U.S. military presence in Ok…

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Legacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Nuclear Attacks Continues to Be Felt Eighty Years Later

Colonel (Ret.) Ann Wright / 09/08/2025

Dedicated peace activists are committed to abolishing nuclear weapons amidst looming threat of nuclear war [Below is a speech given by Colonel Ann Wright at the 2025 World Conference Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs in Hiroshima on August 3, 2025. Aug…

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Social Movements Are Physically Reclaiming Spaces to Replace the State

Sasha Davis / 05/08/2025

More than a way of protest, social movements are occupying spaces to challenge authority and fight against oppression.

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Japanese People Rally to Retain Leader Resisting Trump and Trying to Prevent Japan’s Involvement in a U.S. War Against China

Emanuel Pastreich / 05/08/2025

“Don’t Give Up Ishiba! Don’t let them get away with ‘Japan First.’” [Source: x.com] Japan is gripped by an unprecedented political crisis that has been entirely obscured in the media around the globe. On July 24, the day after the Upper House elections…

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Raid on the House of the Rising Sun

Rafael Baptista / 09/07/2025

The following story has been told and retold all over the world, except in Portugal, where it actually happened. One day, I was informed by a very helpful little bird named Hastings that, in April 1943, a group of men from the Office of …

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Japanese BDS Activists Are Ramping Up Their Campaign Against a Robotics Company

Frances Madeson / 08/07/2025

Japan BDS is claiming a special responsibility to end Japanese robot makers’ complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

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CIA Secretly Financed Political Career of “Monster of Showa” Who Was Responsible For Deaths of Over 1.5 Million Chinese Slave Workers in WWII

Jeremy Kuzmarov / 12/06/2025

[This article follows from CovertAction Magazine’s series exposing the sordid history of the CIA.—Editors] In early 1958, President Dwight Eisenhower authorized the CIA to provide secret campaign funds to Japanese Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi and othe…

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