Approximately 2.4 million Japanese died during the war in various locations. Seventy-nine years later, only half have been recovered.
"I envy Japan," says Park Sun Young, contrasting the indifference shown by Seoul regarding POWs in North Korea with Japan's efforts to rescue abduction victims.
Colonel Galbraith's posthumously published narrative offers a rare and revealing insight into life in the senior Allied officer POW camps during World War II.
The often quoted "kill-all order" of Allied prisoners of war from the journal of the Taiwan POW camp headquarters, was nothing of the sort.
While tourists arrive in Japan again, Shinzo Abe’s work also continues, edging Japan toward normalcy in foreign policy and pride in cultural heritage.
Some in the West find it convenient to photoshop the Russians out of WWII while skewing the data to make the Japanese look bad. A look...
The Columbia University historian draws on the records in a fascinating read tackling common beliefs about POWs in WWII.
Those who died in a battle against Soviet troops in Japan’s far north after Japan’s surrender in World War II were honored in an...
In late 2018, the Indian government renamed three of the islands in its Andaman and Nicobar...
