He’s just an old Japanese man, but he’s angry, and suing his government, and testifying to something remarkable. His story is documented in a film called Ari no Heitai, or The Ants by Kaoru Ikeya.
He may be in this photograph here:

Waichi Okumura was a young soldier stationed in China at the end of World War [...]

Yakutsk is a city in Eastern Siberia, the largest city anywhere built on continuous permafrost, with one of the greatest winter-summer temperature variations in any urban environment.
If you don’t fly in and out – there is a cosmodrome for space exploration – the road to Moscow is a long, long way. It seems to be [...]

This slipped by me, to be picked up in America.
Australia is to be part of a major three-nation archaeological survey of the Gallipoli battlefield, researchers say.
Associate Professor Chris Mackie from the University of Melbourne says the survey will combine conventional mapping with electromagnetic surveying to produce the most comprehensive historical and archaeological study ever conducted [...]

This is a moment of utter esoterica…
..the IMDB link for The Changing Face of Europe, compendium documentary about the Marshall plan in Europe. Today the subject resonates weirdly with Iraq, as the US tries to use European reconstruction as a kind of folk memory to camouflage a war of aggression.
It was also the film in [...]

Pham Xuan An was a Vietnamese correspondent for Time Magazine, who helped the head of Vietnamese intelligence onto the last helicopter out of Saigon, stood just out of the frame to watch it leave, and then went to the Presidential Palace, as the North Vietnamese tank crashed through the gate, and the regime surrendered.
He [...]

““The truth always lies in the character’s eyes,” Nykvist says. “It is very important to light so the audience can see what’s behind each character’s eyes.”
Nykvist says that in the beginning of his relationship with Bergman, he focused on a seminal idea. “I learned that there are types of lighting you can use to create [...]

Inside this box are prophecies, to be read only in a time of national crisis, for a fixed period of time, in the presence of twenty four bishops of the Anglican Church. Its followers have protected it for two centuries, as they wait for their version of the End Times.
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In 1903, one Grace Kimmins set [...]

Through Screen Hub, I have been tracking the fabulous Wa-Wa cannibal story, as it engulfed Naomi Robson, and spread to Channel Nine. For the benefit of overseas readers, Wa-Wa is a child in West Papua who is allegedly waiting to be eaten as a witch by his tribe.
In May, Australian 60 Minutes went there [...]

This kind of dialogue is pretty common in television scripts:
“Detective: Well, what are you going to do? How do you want to play this?
Detective: You going to be all friendly and co-operative and tell us everything, look after your girlfriend? You going to do it that way or are you going to do it the [...]

Over 400 people are imprisoned today in Gitmo. Bush says they were caught on the battlefield, are so dangerous an entire legal system must be violated to keep them in their cells.
Detail by detail, researchers have been finding out exactly what they really did. Here’s the preamble to the Report on Guantanamo Detainees: [...]