Japan in World War II

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Renewed peace agitation
The Militant, 2 June 1945. Japan's critical military situation, combined with steadily worsening economic conditions caused by virtual blockade and devastating air raids, has led to renewed peace agitation by the terribly oppressed Japanese masses.
U.S. Government Shielded Japan War Criminals
By Deirdre Griswold, Workers World, 30 March 1995. US support for the Japanese involved in the development and use of biological weapons in World War II.
What Does The Film Pride—The Fateful Moment Describe?
The Central Committee of the Japanese Communist Party, [8 July 1998]. A Japanese film, (Pride—The Fateful Moment) hails Hideki Tojo, a Class-A war criminal, premiered in Tokyo on May 23. When Japan started the aggressive War in the Pacific, Tojo was the prime minister.
Court rules Japan not responsible for war crimes
Mainichi Shimbun, Thursday, 23 September 1999. The Tokyo District Court stated Wednesday that Japan should sincerely apologize to the Chinese people for its atrocities against them during World War II, but dismissed a damages suit filed by victims of the atrocities.
Hiroshima remembered
Mainichi Shimbun, Monday, 7 August 2000. The total number of A-bomb victims is now 217,137, including an estimated 140,000 who died as a direct result of the bombing by the end of 1945. Hiroshima as model for a peaceful future.
Nagasaki prays for peace
Mainichi Shimbun, Thursday 10 August 2000. The atomic-bomb killed 74,000 people instantaneously. In the intervening years many thousands more have died from radiation-related sicknesses, with the current total standing at 124,191. Most of those who perished were noncombatants, including women, children, the elderly, foreign nationals from China and theKorean Peninsula, and Allied POWs.
War victims remembered
Mainichi Shimbun, Wednesday 16 August 2000. More than 6,000 people, including the Imperial Couple, Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, prayed at Tokyo's Nippon Budokan on Tuesday to commemorate the 55th anniversary of Japan's surrender. Mori expressed his regret over Japan's wartime aggression in Asian countries.
Japan builder to compensate Chinese WWII workers, report says
CNN.com, 29 November 2000. Japan's biggest construction firm Kajima Corp will set up a fund to compensate Chinese laborers who were forced to work for the company during World War II. The workers are seeking compensation for harsh conditions which led to a riot in which five people were killed at Kajima's worksite in northern Japan. Of some 1,000 Chinese workers were brought over to work at the site in 1944, 418 had died by the end of 1945.
Japanese Court Orders Chinese Compensated
By Mari Yamaguchi, Associated Press, Fri 26 March 2004. For the first time, a Japanese court Friday ordered the government to compensate Chinese forced to work as slave laborers during World War II. The workers were taken to Niigata in northern Japan in 1944 as virtual slaves and forced to work at a port under harsh conditions. They were provided meager food, treated violently and given no salary.