NHK took to the streets of Osaka and asked 59 people chosen at random to pose for pictures. Forty-seven of them, or 80 percent, spontaneously made the peace sign. When asked why they did it ...

At the Versailles Peace Conference of 1919, American President Woodrow Wilson held out a promise to the "silent masses of mankind," of a "people's peace" -- a peace made secure by the new League ...