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Post-WWII Japan Set Up Brothels for US Occupation Forces
DID Press: Newly released official documents reveal that after Japan’s surrender in 1945, Japanese authorities, under orders from the Ministry of Home Affairs, established a network of brothels for U.S. occupation forces—a move that exploited Japanese women and left a…
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Japan Marks 80th Anniversary of Nagasaki Atomic Bombing with Solemn Silence
DID Press: Eight decades after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki city, Japan on Friday honored the victims in a solemn ceremony. The bombing of August 9, 1945 claimed more than 74,000 lives, while countless others suffered…
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