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Have you heard of the term "Dark Tourism"?  This is the tour to spots in which historically or even recently terrible incidents happened. It is not a travel to have fun. Rather it is for travelers to study the past and present for the better future. I recently found I have done that many times for many years. Actually I've written about some of such trips on this blog.  But here I present photos and name of sites, year I visited.  Pearl Harbour, Hawaii, the site the Japanese military attacked on US Naval Force on 7 of December 1941 Nanjing China September 2004, the...

Last month, US president Obama paid visit to Hiroshima and hugged survivor of the atomic bomb which the U.S. force dropped onto the city. For most Japanese he was very much welcomed because he was the first sitting president who paid visit although he never apologised for the atomic bomb attack. Many people in the world wondered why Japanese are not so much angry with the U.S. for the...

From last week until early in the next month would mark 5th anniversary of the major combat of the Iraq War. There was a demonstration march to call for the U.S to end the war in Tokyo. The city...

I recently heard very, very surprising news that the U.S. navy has decided to station nuclear aircraft carrier, George Washington in Yokosuka city, which is 2 hour train ride from the capital of...

It has been a huge turmoil in Japanese politics. It was caused by Minister of Defense, Mr. Kyuma. In a speech he made at a University in Chiba Prefecture, he said "US dropping of atomic bombs...