Also:
The Question of War Responsibility
60 Years: The Path of a Nation Striving for Global Peace
http://www.mofa.go.jp/policy/postwar/pamph60.pdf
This pamphlet, and accompanying fact sheet (
http://www.mofa.go.jp/policy/postwar/60th.html), are available from the website of Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The pamphlet begins with a statement acknowledging Japan 's mistaken national policy and the “tremendous damage and suffering” it caused to the people of many countries. It goes on to describe Japan 's efforts in the ensuing 60 years to strive for global peace.
Yasukuni Jinja
http://www.yasukuni.or.jp/english/
A shrine that commemorates Japanese servicemen who lost their lives in war. The website offers a nationalistic viewpoint, and in several commentaries on the site the credibility of Japanese blame for World War II is questioned. Also maintains the Yushukan War Memorial Museum, which has on-line exhibits about World War II.
NHK's Censorship of Japanese Crimes against Humanity
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~asiactr/haq/200201/0201a002.htm
Lisa Yoneyama's essay in Harvard Asia Quarterly (Winter 2002) discusses censorship and alteration of history by the Japanese broadcasting company NHK concerning programming relating to Japanese involvement in World War II.
Japan Addresses its War Responsibility
http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/journal/vol3no1/jpnwar.html
An article by John W. Dower that argues despite American media coverage to the contrary, the issue of war responsibility has been discussed and dealt with thoroughly in Japan. The bulk of the article consists of the text of seven documents that convey a sense of the gamut of positions taken on this issue.
ABC of Modern Japanese History
http://www.jiyuu-shikan.org/e/index.html
Website of the Association for the Advancement of Liberalist View of History that refutes charges of Japanese war crimes such as the Nanjing Massacre and comfort women.
Center for Research and Documentation on Japan's War Responsibility (JWRC)
http://www.jca.apc.org/JWRC/center/english/index-english.htm
The JWRC was established in April 1993 and is dedicated to fulfilling Japan 's responsibility to Asians victimized by Japan during World War II. The website contains articles, activities, and exhibits on Japanese aggression.
Japanese Textbook Raises Concerns
http://www.asiasource.org/news/at_mp_02.cfm?newsid=48253
A special report in 2001 conducted by Asia Today on the dispute over the approval of a controversial textbook. Discusses the widespread discontent many feel that the textbook does not accurately portray Japanese aggression during World War II.
Comfort Women and other Wartime Forced Labor Issues
A History of Trauma
http://taiwan.yam.org.tw/womenweb/conf_women/index_e.html
A website that focuses on the plight of Taiwanese women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War II.
Resolving the Wartime Forced Labor Compensation Question
http://www.japanfocus.org/138.html
This article addresses the issue of lawsuits, brought against the Japanese government, in response to forced labor issues during World War II.
"I'm Here Alive": History, Testimony, and the Japanese Controversy over "Comfort Women"
http://worldhistoryconnected.press.uiuc.edu/1.1/nozaki.html
Yoshiko Nozaki's article considers the controversy and debate surrounding the issue of comfort women in order to understand “controversies over women's voices, testimony, and history more generally.”
Korea Lesson Plan: Korean Comfort Women
http://oia.osu.edu/ncta/korea/Swinehart-Kor.pdf
This lesson is for an independent project in Women in History in which high school students write a paper comparing problems faced by survivors (as discussed in an included article), with problems faced by a character in the book Comfort Woman by Nora Okja Keller.
Nanjing
Nanking Atrocities
http://www.geocities.com/nankingatrocities/
Originally submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Arts in the Graduate School of Journalism of the University of Missouri-Columbia, this website offers an on-line documentary with detailed analysis, eyewitness accounts, photos, film clips, and a selected bibliography of the Nanjing Masacre.
Nanking 1937: Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the Nanking Massacre
http://www.princeton.edu/~nanking/
This website, which accompanied a student-run exhibition at Princeton University in 1997, offers pictures, documents, and a brief historical account.
New Research on the Nanjing Incident
http://japanfocus.org/article.asp?id=109
David Askew's article examines the debate on the Nanjing Massacre in research in Chinese, Japanese & English languages.
WWW Memorial Hall of the Victims in the Nanjing Massacre
http://www.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/NanjingMassacre/NM.html
The WWW Memorial Hall contains a plethora of articles, links, pictures, and other resources. Includes accounts from survivors, Japanese military personal, and refutations and claims of exaggeration from current Japanese officials.
