Japanese media, including The Asahi Shimbun, lauded them as the “nine war gods” in the wartime frenzy. The Navy knew that Sakamaki was alive and taken as a POW. But it would not divulge any ...

The shocking photos show the prisoners of war reduced to skin and bone after being starved and brutally beaten by their captors until they were freed following the fall of Japan in 1945.

“Not many people still remember that there were prisoners of war in Japan,” she said. “I wanted people to know how my grandfather, who was 29 then, acted with hundreds of POWs amid the ...

PostMag writer Jason Wordie looks back at the harrowing history of Hong Kong during World War II under Japanese occupation ...

However, Japan surrendered soon after. Nishikura's family sending him off for military enlistment Taken prisoner, Nishikura and other POWs were made to march about 200 kilometers over 10 days ...

Caroline Tyner, 74, wanted to get a clearer picture of the experiences she remembers hearing as a child from her father, Charles Williams, who was interned as a POW in Japan. He passed away about ...

Further, they agreed that prisoners should be returned to their native countries. The white flag and red cross would serve both hospitals and ambulances as symbols of neutrality. Japan's ...

The weather-beaten flag bears the names of men who endured the infamous Bataan Death March and rode the "hell ships" to Japan, defying the odds by their survival. They lived long enough, at least, to ...

The Japanese flag once flew at Fukuoka 17 ... Honoring the 80th Anniversary of the Liberation of Our Bataan Prisoners of War. This exhibit reflects on the final year of internment for Bataan ...

Several weeks earlier, the Palawan Massacre took place in the Philippines, where 139 American POWs were killed by Japanese ...