The wreckage of a Japanese ship that was torpedoed during World War II off the coast of the Philippines has been found. The ship was carrying Allied prisoners of war, most of them Australians, when it sank in 1942. All 1,080 people aboard perished....
By June 1942, Japanese conquests had already colonized much of Southeast Asia as well as the western Pacific. Under the colonization of the Japanese, prisoners of war and enslaved civilians were subjected to forced labor for their captors in harsh and often inhumane conditions. A series of lan...
As years passed, however, more concluded that the government needed to right the wrong put in motion by PresidentFranklin Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066to "relocate" people of Japanese descent during the war. Slowly, momentum built to demand redress. ...
This was the premiere of the documentary film "The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru" -- which tells the story of a lesser-known WWII tragedy involving Japanese fascists and British prisoners of war (POWs) -- on the island, where it occurred. ...
Many of the subjects were Chinese civilians and prisoners of war, but also included Russian and American victims among others — basically, anyone who wasn't Japanese was a potential subject. Today it's estimated that about 100,000 people were victims within the facility, but when you...
The first-generation Japanese Americans were called, in Japanese, Nisei. A few were second-generation Americans, called Sansei. Neither they nor their parents had ever known any other life than their life in the United States. Almost a third of the prisoners were Japanese citizens, resident ...
Massacre by Japanese Invaders in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, Aug. 15, 2017. Representatives from countries such as China, Japan, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Jordan attended the assembly to commemorate the 72nd anniversary of Japan's unconditional surrender in World War II. (...
The experiences of Phillips and Zamperini as they are brutalized at the camp highlight the sheer vulnerability of prisoners of war. The men are separated, but Zamperini, specifically, enters into a tete-a-tete with Japanese officer Mutsuhiro Watanbe (Miyavi) as the latter...
the Lisbon Maru, a cargo vessel requisitioned by the Japanese army to transport more than 1,800 British POWs from Hong Kong to Japan, was hit by a U.S. submarine off the Zhoushan Islands in China's Zhejiang Province. Local fishermen risked their own lives to rescue over 380 of these PO...
These are just two of almost 20 works by Japanese American artistsincarcerated in the United Statesduring World War II displayed in Tokyo earlier this month. As well as shining a rare light on prisoners’ experiences, the exhibition — and its location, at the official residence of US Ambassado...