The Japanese comfort women program has become a dominant symbol of an era encompassing the Asia-Pacific War. Koreans have aggressively highlighted the issue by having...
Once again South Korea is in a frenzy over the “Rising Sun Flag” [kyokujitsu-ki]. This time “patriotic netizens” have gone so far as to...
China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, aka Southern Mongolia, has been greatly shaken. Local Mongols as a whole, including children from elementary school up to high school...
Nobuyoshi Araki, commonly known by the mononym Arākī, is a world-famous photographer who has also been awarded the highest order by the Austrian government. ...
More than 75 years ago, on one of the islands Japanese and U.S. forces battled over during World War II, a Japanese soldier came upon...
Russia on September 3 celebrated the end of World War II, a virtual anniversary of the former Soviet Union’s victory over Japan. Seventy-five years...
In July I attended the funeral of my granduncle who passed away at the ripe old age of 95. He was the sixth of seven...
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...
On August 8, 1945, just one week before the end of the war, American fighter planes carried out a machine-gun attack on two passenger trains...
The Pacific War officially came to a close on August 15, 1945, but even today the images and sound clips of the Showa Emperor announcing on...
You can call it simple. The room gives off a sense of serenity. The Imperial chamber where the Emperor Emeritus, then the crown prince,...
The generation that fought the Asia-Pacific War is dying off. With each passing month, obituaries inform that the final soldier from a battalion, division or...
