Japan was isolated from the outside world due to years of internal conflict and fear of colonization by European powers. When ...

Historical records show that near the end of World War II, about 40,000 Chinese people were forcibly brought to Japan and ...

Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonca Filho wanted to explore his childhood memories of life under the country’s military dictatorship and how that time echoes in the present in his Cannes Film Festival ...

The rise of unilateralism, ongoing geopolitical turbulence and the distortion of historical truths remind us of the enduring relevance of remembering the past and safeguarding peace. Against this ...

The Imperial Japanese Army began with massive ambition and early victories—but as WWII dragged on, it turned to extreme sacrifice and brutal tactics.

Kolkata is in the middle of surveying and identifying its World War II sirens. This exercise has now been rendered more ...

Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro’s first novel, set in post-war Nagasaki and 1980s England, needed to be made into a ...

THE fall of Berlin on May 8th/9th in the Second World War is widely celebrated as the Victory Day as it heralded the defeat of Nazi Germany. Though the World War in the Pacific, East Asia and South ...

A new film honouring prisoners of war who died in East Asia during the Second World War will be shown at Leighton Buzzard ...