The FDR presidential administration deliberately provoked the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Speculation regarding American influence of Japanese military participation in the war in Iraq.

Indignant coverage of yet another disasterous occurrence at the fault of the U.S. military in occupied Okinawa.

"Americans were also told that use of the bombs "led to the immediate surrender of Japan and made unnecessary the planned invasion of the Japanese home islands." But it's not that straightforward. As Tsuyoshi Hasegawa has shown definitively in his new book, "Racing the Enemy" — and many other historians have long argued — it was the Soviet Union's entry into the Pacific war on Aug. 8, two days after the Hiroshima bombing, that provided the final "shock" that led to Japan's capitulation."

"Personal security is a particularly touchy issue. "I don't mind the regular soldiers," says Asami Oshiro, a young hairdresser from Naha, in Okinawa. But, she says, one of her friends was raped by a marine, though she never reported the incident due to the social stigma involved."