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 ...
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, ...
The remains of an Imperial Japanese Army soldier were returned to his family in the Otaru, Hokkaido, on Thursday after they were discovered last year on Russian island of Shumshu. The island, at the northern end of the Kuril chain, was the site of a ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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, ...
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.
The Hagi Uragami Museum in Yamaguchi Prefecture boasts a magnificent collection of ukiyo-e, Oriental pottery and porcelain works housed in a stylish building designed by well-known architect Kenzo Tange. Its origin, however, has distant echoes of Japan’s brutal wartime history. The museum was founded in 1996 ...
The Abe administration asks the author of a U.N. report that accused Japan of wartime military sexual slavery to amend the 1996 document.
