For the previous two decades, on the August 15 anniversary of its surrender in WWII, Japanese Prime Ministers have expressed sorrow — using phrases such as “profound remorse” and “sincere mourning” — for Japan’s aggression in the war. Not this…

Among many other things, the year 1945 marked one of the most extraordinary population movements in Polish history. Hundreds of thousands of people were returning home from Soviet exile, from forced labor in Germany, from prisoner of war camps, from…