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China outlaws uploading of photos of people in Imperial Japanese Army costumes
China's legislature has enacted a law to criminalize the uploading of photographs containing people dressed in costumes based on the defunct Imperial Japanese Army. The law was unanimously approved by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Friday. It will take effect on ...
Names of 3,607 members of Imperial Japanese Army's notorious Unit 731 released by national archives
The secretive unit’s commander, Lt. Gen. Shiro Ishii, and others received immunity from prosecution by giving the United States its data on germ warfare.
Freestyle skier Nobuyuki Nishi apologizes for wearing hat with military design
Freestyle skier Nobuyuki Nishi revealed Friday that he has apologized for wearing a hat with a design resembling a controversial Japanese wartime flag at the Pyeongchang Olympic athletes' village. Speaking to reporters after finishing the first round of men's moguls qualifying in 16th place, Nishi ...
Thousands still to go but 46,000 abandoned Japanese chemical arms destroyed in China to date
Some 56,000 chemical weapons abandoned by Imperial Japanese forces during and after World War II have been found at more than 90 places in China, and about 46,000 of them have been confirmed destroyed, according to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. But ...
Small Tokyo firm works to re-create wartime trainer aircraft
Olympos, a small Japanese aircraft-maker known for its unique products such as a real-life version of a fictional glider from popular animation, is now working on re-creating a defunct classic trainer biplane used by the former Imperial Japanese Army, aiming for its maiden flight ...
In "Curse on This Country: The Rebellious Army of Imperial Japan," multi-lingual Hebrew University senior lecturer Danny Orbach tracks nearly 80 years (1860-1936) of the influence of the Imperial Japanese Army's officer class on Japan. Curse on This Country: The Rebellious Army of Imperial Japan, ...
Rare photos of wartime underground factory found in U.S. archives
Rare images of an underground munitions plant built by the Imperial Japanese Army toward the end of World War II have been found preserved at the U.S. National Archives, a Japanese group studying wartime remains said. The 17 photos of the facility in Takatsuki, Osaka ...
Defense Ministry gives glimpse of wartime underground vault on premises
The Defense Ministry showed a wartime underground vault to the media Monday that was built by the now-defunct Imperial Japanese Army under the ministry compound in Ichigaya, Tokyo. During the war, the vault was constructed under a building housing the Army Department of the Imperial ...
For WWII veteran, 'fine words' no justification for conflict
A former Imperial Japanese Army soldier has voiced opposition to the government's move to allow Japan to exercise the right to collective self-defense. "As someone who went to war, I don't welcome it. War is no picnic," Kiyosaku Kudo, 90, said. Born and raised in Hiranai, ...
For woman, quality of air-dropped U.S. leaflets was portent of WWII's end
An 81-year-old woman remembers she felt Japan was facing defeat when she felt the quality of the paper used in leaflets dropped by U.S. aircraft calling for surrender in the closing days of the war. "Let's end this war" was a message written in a ...
War vet, 98, recalls two tours as an 'expendable'
Soldiers were merely "expendables" in the Imperial Japanese Army, says a 98-year-old survivor from World War II. Junichi Tanigawa was called into the army twice — in 1938 and 1943 — and fought in China and Burma. While Tanigawa was a standard soldier, his younger brother, ...
Korean survivor recounts path from 14-year-old girl to wartime sex slave
A Korean woman who says she was forced to become a “comfort woman” during the war describes how people dressed as Japanese soldiers persuaded her to do so.
