A Japanese ex-soldier who disappeared after World War II and was officially declared dead in 2000 has turned up alive in Ukraine. Ishinosuke Uwano was serving with the Japanese Imperial Army in Russia ...

When Japanese soldier Hiroo Onoda was deployed to Lubang in the Philippines in 1944, he was instructed to hold the remote island until the Japanese Army returned. Onoda took the orders very ...

Strange Stories of WWII, Hiroo Onoda was a Japanese intelligence officer in the Imperial Japanese Army, who refused to surrender until decades after World War II had ended. Scientists reveal why ...

Experts have identified the remains of a soldier from Massachusetts who died in a Japanese prisoner of war camp in the the Philippines during World War II, the military said on Monday.Army Pfc.

Courtesy of the Illinois National Guard Share After 81 years, a Chicago-area soldier who died during ... who died of pneumonia at age 26 in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in the Philippines.

The flag, known as “Yosegaki Hinomaru,” or Good Luck Flag, carries the soldier’s name ... to the descendants of Japanese servicemembers killed in the war. The search for the flag’s ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines is ready to assist Japan in repatriating the remains of Japanese soldiers who died in the country during World War II, the Department of the Interior and ...