During the 1944 Cowra breakout, over 900 prisoners attempted to escape from an Allied camp in Australia. The uprising ...
Japan occupied all or part of over 20 countries during World War II. The U.S. and its allies liberated many of the Pacific Islands in hard-fought naval and amphibious battles before ending the war ...
On May 3, 1946, at the former Army Ministry in central Tokyo, 11 international judges gathered for an extraordinary legal proceeding. The building’s auditorium had been refashioned into a courtroom, ...
The state-sanctioned cruelty inflicted upon POWs and indigenous peoples by Japanese soldiers from the 1920s to the ’40s is told in unflinching detail by Bryan Mark Rigg in “Japan’s Holocaust: History ...
Your institution does not have access to this book on JSTOR. Try searching on JSTOR for other items related to this book. Introduction: The Problem of Explaining Japanese War Crimes Introduction: The ...
Eight decades since the end of the Second World War, the US-Japan alliance continues to evolve beyond its Cold War foundations. On September 2, 1945, on the deck of USS Missouri, Imperial Japan ...
No longer confined to disputed islands or historical memory, the rivalry between Beijing and Tokyo has evolved into a fight ...
On June 1, about 220 descendants of the war dead in Japan embarked on an 11-day voyage through the Taiwan Strait to the Philippines to offer prayers for relatives who died at sea during World War II. ...
What You Need to Know: Japan’s Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter dominated the skies over the Pacific early in World War II, achieving a 12-to-1 kill ratio. This carrier-based warplane, known for its speed, ...
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak (front L) visits a set of remote islands called Dokdo in Korean and Takeshima in Japanese, east of Seoul August 10, 2012. Lee visited the islands on Friday, ...
Peter Kuzinick, director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University, has described the US as “the most war-making country” in the world. Case in point is the newly-minted Japan-US-Korea ...
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