But in China and Korea, where the suffering and humiliation of Japanese occupation remain vivid political issues, it would be taken as fresh evidence of Japan's refusal to confront the past.
The book breaks no new ground as art history and criticism, but it provides a vivid snapshot of issues and passions at a key moment in the formation of modern sensibility.
New Testament talk about the future issues vivid reminders that God still has work to do among us.
Sanitation was too complex to talk about and community members were overwhelmed by the scale of the problem, while the garbage issue evoked very vivid images of a pressing issue from within their community, making it easier to discuss.
A vivid reminder that environmental issues are again certain to be high up the news agenda in 2017.
In doing so, she echoes her widely acclaimed "Paris 1919," a volume notable for its scope, mastery of complex issues and vivid portrayals of the statesmen who shaped the post-World War I peace settlement.
"Nowhere is this paradox more vivid than in the issues of separation and attachment, attention and distraction, love and limits," Cheever points out in a chapter on -- well, it's hard to say exactly what.
He has a vivid blog about the issues he sets out in his book, and continues to write for the Atlantic – this week a long story about American prison policy has, he hopes, "kicked up some more dust" – but he has no wish to be a talking head.
Just off the square, an open door invited me into a studio with vivid paintings, many addressing issues of women's rights.
Ending a vivid debate on these issues, world leaders and human rights activists put aside long-standing and reasoned reservations about the doctrine of the indivisibility and equality of human rights, which holds that fundamental freedoms cannot be enjoyed without governments guaranteeing social and economic rights, and that the two sets of rights should be adjudicated in a like manner.
