An abandoned island of the coast of Japan, where thousands of people lost their lives, is considered one of the worlds ...

THE world’s most creepy island saw thousands starve to death and abandon their homes. Hashima sits just off the Japanese ...

Takahito, Prince Mikasa served in World War II. Unlike his brother and those he served alongside, he spoke out about Japan's ...

Almost 70 years ago Lorna Johnston's life was hell ... as a prisoner of war in Yokohoma, Japan, surviving on eating the glue off envelopes. The 96-year-old Kohimarama resident is the only ...

Land of Mine, 1971, and Rescue Dawn are moving portrayals of the psychological ordeals faced by POWs, showcasing human ...

A 92-year-old former prisoner of war from East Sussex has put out a desperate appeal to try to find her wedding dress.

Ahead of the 70th anniversary of Victory over Japan (VJ) Day, on August 15, the Oxfordshire Children of the Far East Prisoner of War (CoFEPOW) want to raise awareness for their fathers ...

In World War Two, the Japanese army detained more than 32,000 prisoners of war. The grim conditions inside the camps have been documented in photographs and interviews by the occupying forces ...

Stuart Wood 45 years later. According to an August 1993 obituary for Wood, he was an intelligence officer, who was held as a prisoner of war by the Japanese from 1942 to 1945, first in the ...

Lorna Johnston, of Kohimarama, was held as a prisoner of war for three years from 1942 ... has told her story of the Japanese invasion of an Australian army hospital and her capture with 12 ...

Mrs Henderson married her husband James, who had also been a prisoner of war at a Japanese camp in Asia, after meeting the year before. The couple raised four children together before Mr Henderson ...