He died starving as a prisoner of war after Japanese troops invaded during World War II, wresting the few dozen residents ...

Recent A recent paper by Japanese historian Tokushi Kasahara has revealed previously unknown materials related to the Nanjing ...

New Zealand’s oldest man and former James “Jim” Easton has celebrated another lap around the sun, hitting the grand old age ...

This ain’t paradise anymore, this is a battlefield,” says one of the United States Army nurses in the dramatic play “Angels of Bataan” on stage at Eastmont ...

Not to spoil the rest of the story, ultimately, a small faction of men survived, only to then face a barrage of Japanese bullets in the water. Ultimately, 380 men would be rescued by dozens of local ...

Japan invaded the most westerly of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands and took 41 residents as prisoners of war. Twenty-two of them ...

Note An account of the authors experiences as a Japanese prisoner of war in Changi and, later Japan after his capture in Malaya in 1942.

Shigeto Fujiwara is one of the dwindling number of World War II veterans ... the Chinese prisoners were forced to carry baggage and engage in other types of labor. The Japanese called them by ...

Dec. 9 (UPI) --A group of Japanese survivors of the World War II atomic bombings on Nagasaki and Hiroshima in 1945 is set to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize Tuesday. The delegation touched down ...

Bewildered and elated prisoners poured out of Syrian jails on Sunday, shouting with joy as they emerged from one of the world's most notorious detention systems and walked to freedom following the ...