The country’s postwar Constitution is under scrutiny as Japan rebuilds its military, spooked by a rising China and other potential threats.

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Eighty years after the atomic bombing, some Japanese think that peace for peace’s sake is no longer enough.

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What the world’s only atomic bombings, carried out by Americans, did to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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People on both sides of the border share a cultural heritage much older than modern nation-states, dating back to the ancient Khmer civilization.

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