"She was born during the Japanese occupation and then she went through the Korean War, " Jo says.
His novel, The Garden of Evening Mists, is set during the aftermath of the Japanese occupation of Malaya.
At age 12, having left China with his family during the Japanese occupation, he arrived in Hong Kong for high school.
China suffered mightily under Japanese occupation during the 1930s and 1940s, and accuses Japan of failing to apologise adequately for its sins.
He travelled to the most exotic and remote places: China under Japanese occupation, the Soviet Union, Belgian Congo, Egypt, India, South America, etc.
Chinese cuisine is the most popular, but years of Japanese occupation, recent Korean arrivals and the influence of the US add up to a rich menu.
His debut novel, The Gift of Rain - also about the Japanese occupation of Malaya - was longlisted for the Man Booker in 2007.
After surviving Japanese occupation during World War II, Hong Kong became by one reckoning the fastest-growing city in the world over the past 30 years.
Tang Wei, a former model and a prodigious young actress, plays a member of a political-theatre group that carries its playacting into active resistance to the Japanese occupation.
In another office, an erstwhile private lender has gone for a completely different sort of business, investing 10m yuan in a TV spy caper set during the Japanese occupation.
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The region suffered in the 1930s under Japanese occupation.
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Yet few know much about the Maria Hertogh affair, or have heard of the subject of another exhibit: Elizabeth Choy, a national heroine who was imprisoned and tortured during the Japanese occupation.
This may be a perfect place for Lee, who grew up in Taiwan under Japanese occupation, graduated from Kyoko Imperial University and served for two years as a second lieutenant in the Imperial Army during World War II.
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Mr. Kim was born in 1941 in a remote Russian village, where his parents led a group of communist guerrilla fighters against the Japanese occupation of the Korean peninsula, according to published accounts that rely on North Korean and Russian sources.
By 1904, Japan had astounded the world by defeating Russia's imperial fleet in the Battle of Tsushima Straits, which was also a prelude to the Japanese invasion and occupation of Manchuria.
And in 2001, Koizumi apologized for Japanese treatment of Koreans during its occupation of the Korean peninsula during the first half of the 20th century.
Emptied of all aspirations and ideology, the Japanese spent the next seven years (the allied occupation lasted almost twice as long as the Pacific war itself) having their minds filled with a wholly new vision and set of dreams.
Mr. Roh's arrest followed closely the government's invective against a Japanese cabinet minister who said Japan had done some "good things" during its occupation of Korea from 1910 to 1945.
Indubitably, the basis upon which the Bush administration has bailed out of Vieques will undercut the Japanese government, which has faced increasingly insistent pressure from Okinawans to end the U.S. "occupation" of their island.
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