Dr Daniel Cowling, Senior Historian at the National Army Museum, traces the battles that continued long after VJ Day was ...

James Murphy, a 94-year-old veteran and POW who survived working at Mitsubishi’s Osarizawa Copper Mine and the infamous Bataan Death March in the Philippines, reacts after a Mitsubishi press ...

The remains of a World War II soldier who died as a Japanese prisoner of war more than eight decades ago arrived at San Diego ...

Journalist Aimee Tsujimoto has researched war crimes committed by the Japanese Empire during the Asia-Pacific War (1931-45), focusing on the former Manchuria (now northeastern China), and compiled ...

Some of Illinois’ most hardened criminals apparently have a soft side. Prisoners at the state’s maximum-security lock-up in Pontiac raised $1,071 to be given to an organization helping children’s ...

The anguish of surrender : Japanese POW's of World War II (United Kingdom: University of Washington Press, 2003). Music: Armchair Historian Theme - Zach Heyde Across the Sea of Japan - Mandala Dreams ...

TOKYO -- Japan executes mentally ill prisoners, some of whom are driven insane by harsh treatment while on death row, according to a report issued today by Amnesty International. Prisoners given the ...

A Perth grandmother duped into becoming a drug mule in an elaborate love scam abandons her final line of appeal on drug ...