NANJING -- Ai Yiying, who survived the Nanjing Massacre, passed away on Thursday at the age of 97, bringing the number of ...

when he heard a Japanese soldier inviting him over. By Paul Szoldra Updated on Feb 23, 2021 The Battle of Iwo Jima, which began Feb. 19, 1945, was one of the bloodiest battles in Marine Corps ...

Hiroo Onoda - The holdout Japanese soldier who refused to believe that Japan had surrendered. Loyal servant of the Emperor, he kept true and faithful to his orders to never surrender and to keep ...

A message of friendship apparently sent to an Imperial Japanese Army lieutenant who served in the Philippines during World War II from a Fili･･･ ...

The Japanese are coming!” All of the villagers would panic. Those who were brave stayed; others ran to hide in the mountains. Soldiers would march in and line all of the villagers up ...

Helena Pagano’s great-grandfather was the last Alaska Native chief of a remote island in the Bering Sea, closer to Russia than ...

(Mainichi/Tamiko Kobayashi) CHIBA -- A message of friendship apparently sent to an Imperial Japanese Army lieutenant who served in the Philippines during World War II from a Filipino soldier he ...

Edward P. King surrendered to Japanese Gen. Masaharu Homma. At that point, 75,000 Soldiers became prisoners of war: about 12,000 Americans and 63,000 Filipinos. What followed was one of the worst ...

She went alongside Japanese officials who, as part of a redoubled effort to recover the remains of World War II soldiers killed abroad, unearthed the bones of two people from the tundra.