Japan marked the 80th anniversary of its surrender in World War II during an event in Tokyo on Friday. Japanese Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba paid respects to ...

Explore profound art at the St. Louis Holocaust Museum's new exhibit on Japanese American resilience post-WWII. Opens Jan 17.

Twenty-seven cavalrymen charged Japanese infantry at Morong, Philippines, on January 16, 1942. They scattered hundreds of ...

YOKOHAMA, Japan — On the 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II, the names of more than 1,000 troops who died as prisoners of war were read aloud Tuesday during a memorial ceremony at ...

Explore the intense battle that unfolded during World War II as the Japanese launched a decisive torpedo strike against the ...

Aug. 15 (UPI) --In an address at the National Memorial Ceremony for the War Dead in Tokyo, Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba called for remorse over Japan's actions during World War II. "Eighty ...

The Tokyo Trials prosecuted Japan’s top military and political leaders for atrocities committed during World War II. Yet, several high-ranking figures responsible for some of the worst crimes escaped ...

TOKYO — As Japan's defeat marking the end of WWII nears its 80th anniversary, and some events fade from living memory, history is hardly consigned to books. It lives on in unhealed wounds, ...

Minoru Yasui was the first Japanese American to graduate from the University of Oregon’s law school. He was working as a lawyer in Portland when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed an executive ...

Acknowledgements -- List of figures -- Los Angeles, 1937 : from cantaloupe sunrises to the cantaloupe farms -- The significance of silence -- As a child, I did not know I was Japanese' as an adult, ...

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