The Japanese invasion and occupation of large parts of North and Central China in 1937, and the disruption of normal trade ...

Hidden in the colonial history of Burma is the remarkable tale of James Howard Williams and the elephants he cared for—with ...

I wanted to make a point of placing the monsters within the daily life of Tokyo,” says the photographer Tess Ayano, who spent ...

Set in the shadow of Japanese invasion and Tagore’s death, this ambitious novel charts the lives of ordinary and eccentric ...

A team of intrepid trekkers led by Tagit Sorang, an experienced Everester, recently embarked on a mission in the rugged ...

Japanese forces embarked on the campaign from Burma, the present-day Myanmar, in March 1944 and temporarily occupied Kohima, north of Imphal. But they were forced to withdraw due to shortages of ...

As long as there is a Japanese Army in Burma its destruction must be the first consideration of Admiral Mountbatten's forces. Allied occupation of Rangoon is also desirable to make possible increasing ...

D-Day marked the beginning of the end of the Second World War, a period of our history captured on screen in all its guts and ...

From World War trenches to high-altitude patrols, and now well into their centenarian years, these warriors — my comrades, my ...

I’m deep inside a magnificent Buddhist temple in the ruined city of Mrauk U in western Myanmar (formerly Burma), in embattled ... pepper for rice and ivory. Japanese samurai and soldiers from ...