More and more people whose relatives lived through World War II are donating inherited personal items to peace memorial museums throughout Japan. Such artifacts offer a lens through which visitors are afforded view of Japan's wartime experience. But many museums face difficulties, including insufficient ...
The only U.S. soldier known to still be living in North Korea after defecting more than five decades ago died last year pledging his loyalty to the "great leader Kim Jong Un," his sons said. James Joseph Dresnok was among just a handful of American ...
Lost to the depths of the Pacific Ocean 72 years ago after being sunk by Japanese torpedoes, the wreckage of the USS Indianapolis — the ship that delivered components crucial to "Little Boy," the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima — has been located. A team ...
Hundreds of Japanese parents grieving over the loss of their children have been finding solace in sending dolls in wedding attire to a temple in Aomori Prefecture for rare "marriage" rites for people who died single. Yuchi Shiroto, chief priest of Koboji Temple in Tsugaru, ...
Although Japan and South Korea reached a final settlement several years ago involving payments to Korean women who were forced to sexually service Japanese troops in the 1930s and '40s, the issue won't go away, and not just because the new South Korean president ...
A New York military aviation researcher got more than she bargained for on a dream trip to a battle-scarred South Pacific island — the chance to help solve the mystery of an American soldier listed as missing in action from World War II. Donna Esposito, ...
Uruguay's government is asking political leaders what it should do with a Nazi bronze eagle recovered off its coast in 2006. The eagle was part of the German battleship Admiral Graf Spee, which was scuttled off Uruguay at the outset of World War II. The defense ...
Seventy-two years after the end of World War II, many of those with first-hand experience of the conflict have either passed away or are in advanced age, prompting concerns that memories of the war will fade away with their passing. With this in mind, the ...
The remains of a U.S. Marine will be returned home to California's Central Coast nearly 74 years after he was killed in a bloody World War II battle in the Pacific. The remains of Pfc. George B. Murray will be flown from Hawaii to Los ...
Masaaki Inoue has been visiting Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine for decades. The 63-year-old's father, who passed away five years ago, was a survivor of the Battle of Imphal, the bloody fight between the Imperial Japanese Army and the Allied forces considered one of the great turning ...
Cabinet ministers’ visits to the shrine, which honors war dead including convicted Class-A war criminals, have been strongly criticized by Japan’s neighbors, causing ties to sour.
In a speech on South Korea’s National Liberation Day, Moon urges action on long-standing issues including wartime forced labor and the issue of ‘comfort women.’
