World War II
September 14, 2012
BEIJING--China is raising Japan’s wartime past in the latest dispute over the Senkaku Islands, apparently in hopes of winning support for its territorial claims from...
August 27, 2012
Older people are always complaining about the younger generation. When I was a young adult, one of the beefs about my generation was, "These kids don't even know the difference ...
August 22, 2012
With the remains of some 10,000 Imperial Japanese soldiers still unaccounted for on Iwojima island, one seemingly impenetrable final resting site is beneath a runway still in...
August 15, 2012
The remains of more than 1 million Japanese soldiers lie in battlefields far from home. There are no markers, no graves and no mourners. Many sites are overgrown with jungle.
August 14, 2012
Bitter memories and current rivalries are straining Japan's ties with China and South Korea nearly seven decades after Tokyo's defeat in World War II, raising the risk of...
August 14, 2012
A World War II Hinomaru flag left in the hands of a gift shop owner by a Dutchman has been returned to a relative of the original owner, although the circumstances behind its...
August 11, 2012
The owner of a gift shop in front of Sengakuji temple in Tokyo is seeking to return a Hinomaru flag that was apparently given to a Japanese soldier to commemorate his dispatch...
August 04, 2012
A Japanese photographer based in the United States is holding an exhibition in Tokyo on the American Indian Navajo people of the American Southwest, including portraits of...
July 15, 2012
ETAJIMA, Hiroshima Prefecture--Letters that an Olympic medalist sent to his wife from Iwojima island, where he perished during the final days of World War II, will soon be used ...
June 20, 2012
The Japanese literature scholar Donald Keene might never have set foot in the country to which he has devoted his life if a suicide pilot had succeeded in his mission on April...
May 25, 2012
SEOUL--South Korea’s Supreme Court ruled on May 24 that people who were forced to work without pay for Japanese companies during World War II are entitled to seek...
April 07, 2012
Flashes of pale pink streak past the commuter train windows. Since Friday, the "sakura zensen" cherry blossom front has been sitting right over Tokyo.
March 15, 2012
A memorial service was held on Iwojima island on March 14 for Japanese and American soldiers who died in the celebrated 1945 battle there during World War II.
January 21, 2012
Kang Je-kyu, a South Korean film director famed for his box-office hits "Shiri" (1999) and "Tae Guk Gi--The Brotherhood of War" (2004), has centered his latest piece around the ...
January 05, 2012
LOS ANGELES--A local Japanese grocery store in the United States that survived some tough times in its long and colorful history has closed, another apparent victim of the...
January 04, 2012
EDMONTON -- A sociologist who refused to be sent to internment camps that kept more than 100,000 Japanese-Americans captive during World War II has died in the Canadian city of ...
October 07, 2011
I have quoted the following poem in this column before. It goes: "Pitiful are the war dead/ Pitiful are soldiers who die/ Death comes to them suddenly/ In foreign lands far...
September 22, 2011
TAIPEI--An epic, heroic movie that portrays the uprising of lightly armed Taiwan aborigines against the evil Imperial Japanese colonial rule is proving a hit here with...
September 19, 2011
BEIJING--China clamped down on anti-Japanese protests at ceremonies Sept. 18 marking the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Japan's South Manchurian Railway in Liutiaohu, which ...
September 02, 2011
Japan and Germany may have been allies in World War II, but it is memories of the 1914-1918 conflict that still draw many German tourists to Naruto, a small city in Tokushima...