UNESCO decided on Wednesday to institute a new World Heritage registration process, which will take into account the views of relevant nations when historical and political sensitivities are involved, the Foreign Ministry said. The decision on the new procedure, which will start in 2019, was ...
An online retailer has pulled a costume from its website that depicted Holocaust victim Anne Frank. Screenshots of the costume for sale at HalloweenCostumes.com posted to social media show a smiling girl wearing World War II-era clothing and a beret. The costume was quickly criticized ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent a ritual offering Tuesday to the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine, which has been a source of friction with Japan's neighbors that suffered from its wartime militarism. But Abe is likely to refrain from visiting the shrine in Tokyo during its four-day ...
Bureaucrats rustle up policies that require citizens to do their duty, however irrationally.
The remains of a U.S. Army Air Forces officer who went missing after a bombing run over northern Italy in World War II are coming home. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency says the remains of 2nd Lt. Richard M. Horwitz, of Brookline, will be buried ...
There are many sources to learn the facts behind the world's unceasing aerial bombardment.
Don Stratton, one of the few remaining surviving veterans from the bombing of Pearl Harbor, had been holding on to his memories for more than 70 years. "It's a long story and a hard one," says Stratton, 95, whose memoir, "All the Gallant Men," about ...
Donald Malarkey, a World War II paratrooper who was awarded the Bronze Star after parachuting behind enemy lines at Normandy to destroy German artillery on D-Day, has died. He was 96. Malarkey was one of several members of "Easy Company" to be widely portrayed in ...
100 YEARS AGO Saturday, Oct. 6 1917 Tokyo visited by the greatest typhoon A typhoon such as is rarely experienced in Tokyo at this time of year set in at about 1 a.m. on Monday and accompanied by heavy rain raged intermittently until dawn, causing considerable destruction ...
The government on Tuesday expressed concern over South Korea's plan to install a monument on the grounds of a national cemetery for "comfort women," who were forced to work in Japanese wartime military brothels before and during World War II. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga ...
In his final Counterpoint column, Jeff Kingston considers where Japan is heading under scandal-hit Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Now 89, former World War II "comfort woman" Lee Yong-soo clutched a microphone in one hand Friday in a park outside San Francisco's Chinatown, thrust her other clinched fist in the air, and made a vow. Lee, abducted from Korea at 15 and forced into ...
