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 ...

China has lodged a protest after Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba sent a ritual offering to the controversial ...

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

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 ...

Jenny Chan heard frequent tales from her grandmother about the atrocities committed by the Japanese against the Chinese people during World War II. Chan thought she was delusional. "She was living in ...

Perhaps the most valuable contribution made in this book, is Drea's discussion of how the Imperial ... army that could win praise from foreign observers for its logistical efficiency, medical services ...

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 ...

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 ...