Japan conscripted 240,000 Koreans during World War II. (Japan was able to do this since it had conquered Korea in 1910.) After the war, South Korea called them traitors. Their families have little information about what happened to them.

The people in those families were wronged twice, and I am sorry for them. But sorry also that they put so much importance on scraps of information that wouldn't change anything about those wrongs.

No good can come from obsessing about the corpse of someone who died in 1943. Every Korean, and every Japanese, is familiar with the basic ideas of Buddhism. This attachment causes suffering, and only suffering.

It would be so much wiser to redirect the feeling of loss into efforts to avoid future wars, future conscription, and future suffering.

In India, government lies used for political manipulation have become accepted as normal.

Comparing it to the credulousness of today's US Republicans, it appears not to go to the same lengths, but covers a majority of the people.

The CEOs of big US companies now get an income (on average) of 275 times what the workers get.

The expression "1000%" is somewhat inflationary — I think the CEOs' income has increased by a factor of 11 since 1978.

It Is Time to Haul Boeing Executives Before Congress to Testify Under Oath.

How researchers deduce that the increase in methane level since 2000 is mainly due to fracking in the US.