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Imperial Japan university unites graduates decades after war
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoGrowing up, Fumina Oka knew little about the mysterious university her Taiwanese grandfather...
How significant were the Coastwatchers during WWII?
WE ARE THE MIGHTY via Yahoo News· 6 months agoCaptain Martin Clemens (rear centre), a coastwatcher on Guadalcanal, provided intelligence to Allied forces during the battle for the island (August 1942...
Wichita is the only city in Kansas — and one of 19 nationwide — to receive this honor
Wichita Eagle via AOL· 1 year agoWichita’s factories built thousands of planes that turned back Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. Now...
‘Japan’s Holocaust’ Review: War Crimes in the Emperor’s Name
The Wall Street Journal· 2 days agoThe state-sanctioned cruelty inflicted upon POWs and indigenous peoples by Japanese soldiers from...
West must remain the arsenal of democracy in Ukraine
The News-Press via Yahoo News· 8 months agoWilliam Faulkner famously wrote, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” The recent Republican presidential candidate debate proves that he was...
How the blood-soaked killers of Imperial Japan nearly escaped justice
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 months agoIn March 1943, on the island of New Guinea, a young Australian pilot was put on a truck by his...
Victims of Japan's wartime forced labor denounce Seoul's compensation deal
NextShark via Yahoo News· 1 year agoTwo elderly World War II forced labor victims took to the streets of Seoul in wheelchairs to protest...
An embarrassing Russian defeat a century ago is a warning about the risks of losing a war to China...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 6 months agoCruisers of the Russian Far East Fleet sunk in the bay of Port Arthur in spring 1904 or...
Kuroda Seiki: Who was the celebrated painter who brought Western style to imperial Japan?
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJapanese artist Kuroda Seiki is the subject of the latest Google Doodle on the 156th anniversary of...
Years before the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japan sank a US warship in China
CNN via Yahoo News· 11 months agoIt’s a day seared into America’s collective memory: December 7, 1941. The day Imperial Japanese...