Thousands of Allied POWs disappeared without a trace. Crammed into rusting cargo ships with no food, no water, and no way out ...

The shocking photos show the prisoners of war reduced to skin and bone after being starved and brutally beaten by their captors until they were freed following the fall of Japan in 1945.

Documents, especially those involving Japan's wartime atrocities, were carefully destroyed in the war's closing days and finding new evidence for a proof would be difficult. Akiyama added that a ...

After 26 years of this motley career, Tanaka became chief of the Military Service Bureau of the War Ministry, a job that gave him indirect control of the Kempei Tai (Japan’s secret police), and ...

A guesthouse in Japan says it is under pressure from local authorities to change a policy asking guests to declare that they have never committed war crimes, following complaints by Israel’s ...

Last week, at midnight after the winter solstice, the paths of Japan’s top war leaders ended without glory, but with a dignity that seemed enhanced a little by the doubt and confusion among the ...

"We ask all guests who may have committed war crimes to sign a pledge ... Israel's ambassador to Japan. In it, Cohen called the incident "deeply troubling" and said it "raises serious concerns ...

It further included a commitment to uphold international humanitarian law and to abstain from any future engagement in war crimes. Israel’s Ambassador to Japan, Gilad Cohen, sent a letter to ...