The southern portion of Sakhalin Island in Russia was under Japanese jurisdiction during WWII. The Soviets subsequently ... and a police officer shot dead another. Eventually, Onoda found himself ...
A notorious branch of the imperial Japanese army, it carried out horrifying ... off and the heart was too weak to pump anymore, an officer in leather boots would climb onto the table and jump ...
News of Kozuka’s death shocked the Japanese authorities. Both soldiers had long been declared dead after the death of Shimada in 1954. Popular consensus suggested it simply was not possible for the ...
Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A monument at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles called the Ireichō is drawing many ...
National Monument for the WWII Japanese American Incarceration.” “We wanted to repair that moment in American history by thinking of the fact that this is a group of people, Japanese Americans ...
KUCHING: The descendents of Desmond Vernon Murphy, a British officer killed in the infamous ... Murphy and 40 others were killed by the Japanese in September 1942 in the tiny Dutch government ...