It’s staggering to think that, at the end of the Pacific War, almost 7 million Japanese servicemen and civilians were awaiting repatriation in various parts of Asia. Homecomings: The Belated Return of Japan’s Lost Soldiers, by Yoshikuni Igarashi. 320 pages COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS, Nonfiction. ...
Several dozen Turkish soldiers assigned to NATO have sought asylum in Germany, a media report said Saturday, quoting officers who said they fear jail and possibly torture back home. Around 43,000 people are under arrest in Turkey on charges or links to last year’s ...
The Israeli Army is searching for hundreds of weapons and tens of thousands of munitions — from its own former soldiers. It turns out that many soldiers have ended their service by walking away with memorabilia. The military is now pleading with them to ...
Some 22 Philippine soldiers were wounded Saturday in a firefight with Islamic militants, the military said, a day after the release of a retired Italian priest taken hostage in the Muslim-populated south of the country. The Philippine security forces have been hunting the militant ...
Cuban President Raul Castro announced Monday that he is dispatching 9,000 soldiers to help keep the Zika virus out of Cuba, calling on the entire country to help kill the mosquito that carries the disease. In a rare front-page message on the state-run newspaper ...
A man rammed his car into four soldiers guarding a mosque on Friday in the southeast French city of Valence, but was stopped when a soldier fired and wounded him, authorities said. His motives were unclear, but with France on high alert after the ...
British soldiers helped evacuate hundreds of people from rising floodwaters in the historic city of York on Sunday, after heavy rainfall inundated towns and cities across northern England. Prime Minister David Cameron pledged more military help for the region as the army was deployed ...
Soldiers killed hundreds of Shiite Muslims this weekend after their group opened fire on the convoy of Nigeria’s army chief, the Shia Islamic Movement and military reports said Monday. Other reports put the number of dead at about 20. Shiite leader Ibraheem Zakzaky and ...
Digging with his bare hands to escape the jungle tomb of his plane after it was shot down by U.S. forces over Guadalcanal in 1942, Japanese fighter pilot Kaname Harada understood the full horror of war. Pinned beneath the wreckage in the Solomon Islands ...
Rice farmer Boontham Chei-pa switches on a water pump in the evenings to irrigate his parched field from a canal in Thailand’s central province of Suphanburi. The soil is hardly moistened before the motor is switched off. Soldiers patrol the canal to stop unauthorized ...
Canadian soldiers were arriving Tuesday to battle raging wildfires on the country’s west coast, where about 13,000 people have been evacuated in recent days. The smoke has triggered air quality warnings across the U.S. West and Midwest. Premier Brad Wall said it is the ...
The remains of some 15,000 Japanese soldiers who died in the Philippines during World War II continue to lie in undignified government storage after the media raised suspicions five years ago that the deceased include those of local residents obtained by profiteering grave robbers.
