At the time, the defense of Manila was the single most consequential event of the Pacific War from the point of view of the law of armed conflict. Wars-of-continuation decided the fates of Vietnam ...

NAHA--Okinawa Prefecture will preserve the remains of the Imperial Japanese Army headquarters that served as a command post beneath Shuri-jo Castle here during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa. As a ...

Jiro Akimaru, former Lieutenant Colonel of the Imperial Japanese Army, in 1991. In a 1991 interview about decision-making leading up to the war, Akimaru said that even within the military ...

Photo taken on Dec 12, 2024 shows the archives of germ-warfare activities conducted by the Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II, at the Exhibition Hall of Evidences of Crime ...

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

Douglas MacArthur's U.S. Army Forces in the Far East, or USAFFE, had held out for four months against the Imperial Japanese Army, while every other island and nation in the Pacific and Southeast ...

Ma Ying-jeou, the former chairman of the Chinese Kuomintang party, takes a group of Taiwan students to the Exhibition Hall of Evidences of Crime Committed by Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army in ...

Imperial Japan is known to have committed several war crimes in China and South Korea during the Second World War. The films shed light on this wartime brutality, including live human testing ...

On a cloudless day off the Philippines coast, Shigetoshi Kaneko held onto floating debris while adrift, clinging to hope ...

After all, he was married to a Japanese wife and had served in the Imperial Japanese Army during the Asia-Pacific War. He had nearly died in a Soviet internment camp after the war before returning ...