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The head of an official inquiry into the deadly collapse of a Bangladesh factory complex said the building’s owner was the “main culprit” for the disaster because he violated construction codes. The cave-in of the eight-story Rana Plaza outside the capital last month killed ...
Throughout most of Japan, June is the rainy season. While all that rainfall is great for rice paddies so that we can have delicious new harvest rice in the fall, it makes it a rather dull month for seasonal produce: The summer’s bounty of ...
“I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
Claude Regy says the team at the Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC) threw him the “best birthday party ever” when he arrived in Japan just days after the actual May 1 occasion. The 90-year-old French director is hoping for an even better birthday gift, ...
As far as debuts go, Shohei Otani's delivered. The celebrated rookie pitched fairly well on Thursday night, and though he finished outside the decision, he left the mound with the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters well within striking distance of the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.
Hundreds of photos of Russian officers and soldiers taken prisoner during the Russo-Japanese War more than a century ago have been published in a special collection that provides a rare glimpse of the men’s lives as POWs. During the 1904-1905 war, in which Japan ...
Russia will release to Japan the transport records on Japanese prisoners who were taken to labor camps in Siberia and Mongolia after the war, Japanese officials said Monday. The records of Russian convoys kept at a public archive in Moscow will be the first ...
Tokyo has provided Canberra with data on about 4,497 Australian prisoners of war who were forced into slave labor by Japanese forces during World War II, the Foreign Ministry said. The data, delivered Monday by the ministry to the Australian Embassy in Tokyo, include ...
Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara officially apologized Thursday to a group of five former Australian prisoners of war for the hardships they endured at the hands of their Japanese captors. Maehara met the five former POWs, as well as their family members and caregivers, at ...
LOS ANGELES — As Japanese companies ready themselves to bid on California’s high-speed rail project this year, one man is asking them to pause and remember the past. Lester Tenney, 90, is using the occasion to renew his call for an apology from Japanese ...
To commemorate soldiers who died as prisoners of war in Japan during World War II, about 130 people attended the 16th annual memorial service Saturday at the British Commonwealth War Cemetery in Hodogaya, Kanagawa Prefecture, where 1,873 Allied service members are buried. “As a ...
LONDON — A British former prisoner of war has been telling of the enduring friendship he built up with his Japanese guard after corresponding with him for 64 years. John Baxter, 91, regularly exchanged birthday and Christmas cards with Hayato Hirano after the time ...
NEW YORK (AP) For 68 years, John E. Love has been haunted by the memory of carrying fallen comrades to a mass grave hollowed out of a Filipino rice field. Now, at last, a bit of history is being rewritten because of those memories. ...
LONDON — Elderly residents in a British town are opposing plans to set up links with a community in Japan, claiming that memories of World War II are still too raw. Barbara Pagett, a member of the local council in Lytham St. Annes, which ...
26th in a series Before and during the war, Japanese believed the Emperor was a living god. They also believed they were fighting for him and dying on the battlefield was honorable. Christians were often the targets of discrimination during the era of Emperor ...
YOKOHAMA — About 100 people participated in the 15th annual memorial service at the British Commonwealth War Cemetery on Saturday to pay their respects to soldiers and others from Allied nations who died in Japan as prisoners of war during World War II. Gertie ...
Records on up to 760,000 Japanese imprisoned in Soviet labor camps after World War II have been found at a national archive in Moscow, casting new light on what is regarded as a major tragedy involving Japanese in the war’s aftermath, government sources said. ...