It's hard to point out a best country. For me, some of my favourite Asian cities are Singapore and Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. My reasons are explained in more details at hubpages.com/hub/Top-5-Favourite-Cities-Ive.
Japan~ It has nice beaches, though I would never want to go because there are waaaaay too many people, but everything else is there. Just gotta keep in mind the earthquakes and tsunamis.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.