Nurse Breaks Silence, Reveals WWII Atrocity
A wartime nurse has broken more than 60 years of silence to reveal
her part in burying dozens, perhaps hundreds, of bodies there as
American forces occupied the Japanese capital.
The way experts see it, these were no ordinary casualties of war, but
possible victims of Tokyo’s shadowy wartime experiments on live
prisoners of war – an atrocity that has never been officially recognized
by the Japanese government, but is well documented by historians and
participants.
Source: AOL News, September 16, 2006
Japan passes bill to fingerprint foreigners
Foreigners arriving in Japan will be photographed and fingerprinted
on arrival as part of measures to prevent terrorism, under a measure
approved by Japan’s parliament Wednesday.
Source: Reuters (online), May 17, 2006
School daypack features satellite tracking
Responding to a rise in crimes against children, a Tokyo manufacturer
is joining forces with a security firm to create school bags with a
global positioning system, or GPS.
Source: WorldNetDaily, November 6, 2004
Japan plans GPS tracker for teens
Stunned by the kidnapping of a teenage girl, a rural Japanese city
plans to use a satellite-linked tracking system to help parents find
their children.
The northern city of Murakami has asked two security companies to
provide the service for the families of 2,700 elementary and junior high
school students, said Kenkichi Kimura, an official on the city’s Board
of Education….
Source: The Globe and Mail (online), October 2, 2003
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