It was everywhere in Europe.” On Tuesday, the U.S. Embassy in Japan denied that U.S forces operated a system of comfort women during or after that war.

Victoria Kelly’s grandfather was an American atomic veteran who served in Nagasaki and died young, haunted by his experiences ...

A battered World War Two book telling the stories of people from part of old Telford who fought during the hostilities, is to be republished as part of events to mark 80 years since VJ (Victory in ...

The government will be conducting activities on the recording and preservation of oral history on the Malaya Lolas’ experiences during Second World War. In the Joint Memorandum Circular 2025-1 S. 2025 ...

Ms. Gil was one of about 240 so-called comfort women from South Korea who had publicly spoken out about their abuse at the hands of the Japanese military from the 1930s through World War II, and ...

Japanese War Brides, a traveling Smithsonian exhibition, explores the lives of the nearly 45,000 Japanese women who immigrated to America as wives of U.S. military servicemembers after World War II.

Kyoko Oda is one of nine survivors of the U.S. government’s internment of Japanese Americans featured in “The Age of ...

Japanese women were expected to be combatants in the Volunteer Fighting Corps. These ladies train with a Nambu Type 11 light machine gun (6.5x50 mm Arisaka). It is highly unlikely that even an old ...

Before World War II, Japan was truly a man’s world. Husbands ruled as absolute masters of the home, and wives were expected to be obedient, unobtrusive and completely devoted to family and ...

A Japanese navy destroyer torpedoed during a crucial Second World War battle has finally been discovered on the Pacific Ocean floor 80 years after it sank. At such a critical moment in US history, we ...