Hundreds of Allied prisoners of war were held in Japanese camps in Nagasaki when the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb 80 years ago ...
James Murphy, a 94-year-old veteran and POW who survived working at Mitsubishi’s Osarizawa Copper Mine and the infamous Bataan Death March in the Philippines, reacts after a Mitsubishi press ...
Hundreds of prisoners of war from Allied countries were held at brutal Japanese camps in Nagasaki when the United States ...
FUKUOKA, Japan — Nearly 80 years after they were captured and killed in the final days of World War II, dozens of U.S. airmen were honored Friday with a solemn ceremony that also reckoned with the ...
A statue celebrating the life of a "forgotten war hero" from World War Two has been unveiled at the spot where he used to ...
A reporter traveled to the corners of the country to meet six World War II veterans, who had a warning for generations to come. By Martin Fackler Reporting from Tokyo Times Insider explains who we are ...
Baumkuchen, a confectionery with German origins, has found an unexpected home in Japan, where it is now a wildly popular sweet. Its introduction to the country traces back to a prisoner of war on a ...
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A man walks past the names of prisoners of war etched into granite at the Taiwan POW Memorial and Peace Park - Copyright AFP I-Hwa Cheng A man walks past the names of ...
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