80 years after World War II, Okinawa’s battle sites are still giving up bones and bombs
An estimated 240,000 people were killed or went missing in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Eighty years later, the ...
Military Times18h
In WWII, the ‘Tokyo Express’ was tough to beat. One man changed that.
Nicknamed the “Tokyo Express” by their opponents, the Japanese “tin cans” acquired the grudging respect of the Americans for ...
The Economist28d
Alexis Dudden on the firebombing of Tokyo and on post-war struggles to keep it remembered
Archive 1945 is a project republishing The Economist’s original reporting on the final year of the second world war ... Tokyo air raid haunted them all their lives. Yamashita Seiko was a 21-year ...
U.S. News & World Report29d
Meet the World's Oldest Female Barber. A 108-Year-Old Japanese Woman Is Overjoyed at the Recognition
A 108-Year-Old Japanese Woman Is Overjoyed at ... They had two children before he was killed in the Japan-China war that broke out in 1937. Hakoishi lost her salon in the deadly March 10, 1945 ...
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108-year-old Japanese woman is named world's oldest female barber
They had two children before he was killed in the Japan-China war that broke out in 1937. Hakoishi lost her salon in the deadly March 10, 1945 U.S. firebombing of Tokyo. Before that, she and her ...