General Macarthur and other senior Army officers, upon his arrival at Atsugi airdrome, near Tokyo, Japan, 30 August 1945. U.S. National Archives. Occupation official turned historian Richard B.

FUKUOKA--Buddhist sutras were chanted and incense smoldered during a memorial service here for 43 U.S. soldiers executed while being detained as prisoners of war by the Imperial Japanese Army or ...

Interview tapes from the 1970s that feature a late Japanese diplomat and Class-A war criminal are providing fresh insight into the chain of events that committed Japan to its World War Two alliances.

Who was to blame for the atrocities perpetrated on American POWs in the Philippines? While there is no easy answer to that question, one of the men who was charged with war crimes was Japanese ...

The film is a graphic depiction of the war atrocities committed by the Japanese at Unit 731, the secret biological weapons experimentation unit of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.

Two hours outside Osaka, Japan, a dozen men gather around a campfire cooking rice and pickled fish in vintage Second World War mess tins – the same rations their grandfathers ate while at the front to ...

NAHA--Okinawa Prefecture will preserve the remains of the Imperial Japanese Army headquarters that served as a command post beneath Shuri-jo Castle here during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa.

The materials, including classified military telegrams and documents written in Japanese, provide details on how the Japanese invaders orchestrated the mass counterfeiting of the then-Nationalist ...