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FEATURE: Historian reveals new insights from WWII aerial footage
11+ mon, 3+ day ago (794+ words) TOKYO - Aerial warfare historian Yusuke Orita was thrilled when his decade-long effort to collect and analyze U.S. military war film footage led him to uncover a rare color segment showing Japan's famed battleship Yamato under attack in 1945. As the task of…...
Empress Masako turns 62, reflects on peace after WWII memorial visits
9+ mon, 4+ day ago (529+ words) TOKYO - Japan's Empress Masako marked her 62nd birthday on Tuesday by reflecting on the importance of peace after a year that included visits to World War II memorial sites and an official trip to Mongolia with Emperor Naruhito. Having spent this…...
Philippine museum exhibit features WWII diary of Japanese POW
2+ mon, 9+ hour ago (333+ words) MANILA - Copies of sketches and writings from the World War II diary of a Japanese engineer who was stationed in the Philippines at the time and became a prisoner-of-war are on display at a museum in Manila for the first…...
BREAKING NEWS: Japan PM Ishiba vows to uphold predecessors' views on history in WWII message
11+ mon, 3+ day ago (111+ words) Read full story here Filipino man with Japanese roots denied in request for Japan nationality Japan's new high-speed maglev trains to have non-reclining seats Takaichi paves way for Japan's 1st female PM by becoming ruling LDP head Japan tightens license conversion…...
Japan's former Emperor Akihito turns 92
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (310+ words) TOKYO - Japan's former Emperor Akihito turned 92 on Tuesday after spending the past year reflecting on the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, with his condition stable following a new heart diagnosis, the Imperial Household Agency said. The former…...
Maritime Yamato history museum reopens with revamped battleship model
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (13+ words) Japan Wire by Kyodo News...
BREAKING NEWS: Japan PM pledges faster progress on fighter project with Italy, U.K.
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (124+ words) Read full story here Tsunami waves arrive in Japan after M7.8 quake off Philippines Over 10,000 albatrosses reported on Japan island after "extinction" Man admits creating videos critical of Japan PM rivals in LDP election American found dead in Kyoto after disappearing…...
Wartime PM, war criminal Hideki Tojo's diaries donated to Tokyo library
1+ mon, 9+ hour ago (16+ words) Japan Wire by Kyodo News...
Imperial Japanese Army conducted experiments on own troops: researcher
3+ week, 4+ day ago (388+ words) TOKYO - The Imperial Japanese Army conducted experiments on its own soldiers during the Second Sino-Japanese War, exposing troops hospitalized for mental illnesses and deemed unfit for combat to malaria-carrying mosquitoes, a researcher at Meiji Gakuin University said Monday. Military doctors…...
A forgotten chapter: The stories of Allied POWs in Nagasaki during the atomic bombing
8+ mon, 1+ week ago (1021+ words) NAGASAKI, Japan - Hundreds of prisoners of war from Allied countries were held at brutal Japanese camps in Nagasaki when the United States dropped an atomic bomb 80 years ago. Their presence during the Aug. 9, 1945, bombing is little known, and family and…...