TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s great affection for Takashi Yamazaki’s “The Eternal Zero,” a 2014 box-office hit about a kamikaze pilot, is well known. The movie engendered endless debate about whether it was a creepy, weepy apologia for the war, a question raised about many of Japan’s recent war films. On the one hand, the film’s pilot hero hopes for peace, hating the war and the cr
Richard Spencer is one of the country’s most prominent white nationalists. He’s also a terrible bookkeeper. For the second time this year, the state officials in Virginia who regulate nonprofits have rebuked Spencer’s far-right think tank for failing to register to solicit donations. Fundraising without such registration is illegal in Virginia. As of Thursday, Spencer’s National Policy Institute w
California politics updates: Gov. Brown blasts Trump on climate change, state lawmakers weigh in on hundreds of bills by week’s end This is Essential Politics, our daily look at California political and government news. Here’s what we’re watching right now: Gov. Jerry Brown told the Times Wednesday that a decision by President Trump to withdraw from the Paris Accord on climate change would be “tra
Denizens of the darker corners of the Internet turned an innocent frog comic into a hate symbol of the "deplorable" alt-right. "Pepe the Frog" first appeared in 2005 in the comic "Boy's Life" by artist and illustrator Matt Furie. The comics depict Pepe and his anthropomorphized animal friends behaving like stereotypical post-college bros: playing video games, eating pizza, smoking pot and being ha
Lone wolves and Islamic State’s most lethally trained operatives alike heeded his words -- and turned them into bloody deeds. Abu Muhammad Adnani, whose death was announced Tuesday by the extremist group, was a chief architect of its war against the West. He exhorted European-born fighters to commit attacks on home ground rather than joining the fight in Syria and Iraq – and pointed the way for th
Straddling East and West, Turkey is a critical U.S. ally in fight against Islamic State Mourners carry the coffin of a man who died during the coup attempt at a funeral ceremony at Kocatepe Mosque in Ankara, Turkey. Support from the highest ranks in the army helped keep President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in power. (Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP/Getty Images)
As Paris reels, investigators piece together the attackers’ stories Sylvain Perriot stops to take a picture of the flag at half mast above the Presidential Palace in Paris. France’s Sate of Emergency will continue, with flags at half mast. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times) Looking inside the courtyard of the Presidential Palace, guards stand at attention for the departure of Secretary of State Jo
Ukraine on Thursday announced that it was closing its airspace to Russian military flights bound for Syria, joining the NATO blockade of arms and military personnel that Western intelligence officials say signals a significant Kremlin buildup in the war-torn Middle East country. The declaration by Ukrainian officials that Russian planes bound for an airport and Russian naval base on Syria’s Medite
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