General Macarthur and other senior Army officers ... and directed the war. Class B and C charges, which could be leveled at Japanese of any rank, covered "conventional war crimes" and "crimes ...

As diplomatic machinations were unfolding in Europe in 1939, the Imperial Japanese Army unwittingly played the role of trigger to start World War II, according to Stuart Goldman, who has written a ...

Question: I've heard that the national government is investigating former Imperial Japanese military personnel ... A: During the war, Kohnodai Army Hospital in Chiba Prefecture specialized in ...

While there is no easy answer to that question, one of the men who was charged with war crimes was Japanese ... was the commander in charge of the Japanese Imperial forces during the first battles ...

They became prisoners of the brutal Imperial Japanese Army for 37 months. Those 37 months made hell look like a surfing vacation. I spent most of the first five years of my life as a Coast Guard brat ...

The project could shed light on the decision-making process during the battle that ravaged the island prefecture 77 years ago in the closing days of the war. The Imperial Japanese 32nd Army ...

The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about "war trauma," which the Japanese government began ...