Nearly 80 years after the end of World War II, 1.2 million Japanese war dead are still unaccounted for. That’s about half of the 2.4 million Japanese, mostly soldiers, who died during Japan’s ...

Henderson is the author of Bridge to the Sun: The Secret Role of the Japanese Americans Who Fought in the Pacific in World War II (Knopf). The morning sky was dull gray with low-hanging clouds ...

Headquartered in then-Japanese-controlled northeast China, Unit 731 and several related units injected prisoners of war with typhus, cholera and other diseases, according to historians and former ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito visited Iwo Jima on Monday and paid tribute to thousands of Japanese and Americans who died in one of World War II's bloodiest battles. Naruhito and his wife, Empress ...

A hotel in the Japanese city of Kyoto allegedly canceled an Israeli tourist’s reservation because of “war crimes,” drawing criticism from local officials who said it violated regulations.

During World War II, Japanese-Americans in California were also interned. Capt. Kozo Nishino, the submarine captain, who was interviewed in Japan after the war, was reported by some historians to ...

(Photo courtesy of Kat Burk) Japanese War Brides, a traveling Smithsonian exhibition, explores the lives of the Japanese women who immigrated to America as wives of U.S. military servicemembers ...

Nobody’s ever been treated like this,” Trump told host Dan Bongino. “Maybe the Japanese during Second World War, frankly. But, you know, they were held, too.” Roughly 120,000 Japanese ...

He also points out that in a territorial dispute that has continued since the Second World War ... ‘Ainu Puri’ Tokyo International Film Festival The Ainu cultural touchpoint for many Japanese ...