Published this week in the U.S. by Harper Collins (no one in Japan has yet agreed to translate and publish the work), Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan relies on diaries, memoirs and war-era documents that have been unearthed in Japan since the Emperor died in 1989.

CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia | Lesser Majesty

The paper says MI5 "betrayed the confidentiality that refugees are promised when they apply for asylum", citing documents "unearthed from Libyan spymasters' archives" after the Gaddafi regime was toppled last year.

BBC: Gaddafi

On June 21st, after a long and costly legal battle that unearthed documents backing Mr Wasserstrom's case, the UN's new Dispute Tribunal overturned that.

ECONOMIST: Whistleblowers in the UN

To prove that MTBE concentrations below the EPA's threshold still made water taste terrible, Summy unearthed documents like a 1983 Shell letter detailing that water was no longer drinkable where MTBE'S concentration was 7 to 15 parts per billion.

FORBES: Demonizing for Dollars

Over many months, Mr Klein's team has unearthed Microsoft documents which appear to confirm that Microsoft really did see the threat in these apocalyptic terms.

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