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AUSCHWITZ

Holocaust Remembrance Day marks the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau on Jan. 27, 1945, and honors the victims of the Holocaust while urging the world to confront antisemitism and hatred.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 27, 2026
A message to the world on Holocaust Remembrance Day
Like many Jews, I prefer not to call it a ¡°concentration camp,¡± for that is what the German Nazis called the places where they confined the people they sought to exterminate.
U.S. tech billionaire and businessman Elon Musk is seen on a large screen as Alice Weidel, co-leader of Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, addresses an election campaign rally in Halle, eastern Germany, on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 28, 2025
German Holocaust remembrance under fire from far right and Elon Musk
Remembrance of the Nazis¡¯ genocide of Jews and other atrocities has for decades been a central feature of German politics and society as the country seeks to atone for its past.
Berlin's landmark Brandenburg Gate is illuminated with the inscription "WeRemember" on Saturday as part of the remembrance ceremonies for the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.
WORLD / Society
Jan 28, 2025
Auschwitz survivors warn of rising antisemitism at 80th anniversary of camp¡¯s liberation
More than 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, perished in gas chambers or from starvation, cold and disease at Auschwitz.
Auschwitz-Birkenau survivor Janina Iwanska, 94, a retired pharmacist, holds an undated picture from her way back to Poland, ahead of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz, in Warsaw on Jan. 7
WORLD
Jan 24, 2025
Auschwitz survivors recall their suffering 80 years after camp¡¯s liberation
An estimated 1.3 million people were sent to the Nazi death camp set up in occupied Poland as part of Adolf Hitler¡¯s ¡°Final Solution¡± to annihilate European Jews.
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Dec 28, 2020
Anne Frank and Sadako Sasaki: Two girls that symbolize the horrors of war
The 75th anniversary of the end of World War II came amid a pandemic. We take a moment to look back to remember two people in particular who died in that global crisis.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Apr 15, 2019
Hungary Holocaust march honors Scottish missionary
Thousands of Hungarians attended the annual March of the Living in Budapest on Sunday to commemorate victims of the Holocaust, including Jane Haining, a Scottish missionary who refused to abandon her Jewish charges during World War II.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Jan 28, 2019
Far-right protest staged for first time during Auschwitz camp liberation commemoration
Dozens of Polish far-right nationalists gathered at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland on Sunday to protest at the same time as officials and survivors marked the 74th anniversary of the camp¡¯s liberation in an annual ceremony.
COMMENTARY / World
May 10, 2016
A lesson about truth and justice from Auschwitz
At a trial for a German concentration camp guard, a Holocaust survivor seeks to put truth and justice before his desire for revenge.
Japan Times
51³Ô¹ÏÍø / History
Nov 5, 2015
Holocaust art collector seeks to repatriate works to Poland
Writer Michiko Nomura was bursting with anger at what she saw during her first visit to Holocaust memorials in Poland and Czechoslovakia in 1989.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 16, 2015
¡®Accountant of Auschwitz,¡¯ 94, guilty of abetting deaths of 300,000 Jews, gets four years
A 94-year-old man who was once a Waffen SS volunteer at Auschwitz was convicted for aiding in the murder of more than 300,000 Jews at the camp and sentenced to four years in prison.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 24, 2015
Why prosecuting Auschwitz crimes still matters
The best symbol of German atonement for World War II is Chancellor Angela Merkel¡¯s relentless efforts to negotiate compromises in conflicts others want to resolve by force.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 3, 2015
Defeating Nazism: a just war
On the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, we should be mindful that the peace of Europe and of the world could be jeopardized by a return to rivalry between European states and the collapse of the European Union.
EDITORIALS
Jan 23, 2015
Auschwitz¡¯s lessons for Japan
The 70th anniversary, on Tuesday, of the Soviet Army¡¯s liberation of Nazi Germany¡¯s Auschwitz concentration camp should serve as a chance for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to reflect on Japan¡¯s wartime behavior in the Asia-Pacific region.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 5, 2011
Japan in a European club?
Hitherto unknown and self-styled ¡°loach¡± Yoshihiko Noda must learn to swim in an ocean of problems as Japan¡¯s new prime minister of the year. He has more than a plateful of domestic issues, but he should also realize, as his predecessors forgot, that Japan needs to re-engage the world if it is to find...
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Indian brothers make manga debut in Japan
Two Indian brothers made their manga debut in Japan with "Kung Fu Kung Fool" ¡ª an action-comedy series that follows the adventures of a notorious thief and a young boy.
Japan scientists identify clusters of protein believed to trigger Alzheimer¡¯s disease
A team of researchers said they found a ¡°seed¡± that accelerates the amyloid beta accumulation process in the brain, naming it ¡°Peak 1 amyloid beta,¡± as seen in a mouse's brain.
The sci-fi sensibilities of electronic trio Black Boboi
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