Outside5d
My Quest to Find the Owner of a Mysterious WWII Japanese Sword
Among them was a Japanese sword he’d found on an Okinawa beach in the final days of World War II. It was six months after I first asked Benny if he’d be interested in finding the sword’s owner.
Daily Mail28d
WW2 heroes reduced to skin and bone in Japan's horrific POW camps: Harrowing pictures reveal ordeal of Brit troops... and the fearsome devices used to torture them
The shocking photos show the prisoners of war reduced to skin and bone after being starved and brutally beaten by their captors until they were freed following the fall of Japan in 1945.
Defense News25d
Japan passes record defense budget, while still playing catch-up
“Japan is facing the most severe and complex security environment since the end of World War II.” Japan is alarmed by China intruding into its southwestern archipelago, and it regards Russia ...
Newsweek24d
Japan Faces Likely Devastating 'Megaquake' in Next 30 Years, Say Experts
At the end of World War II, Japan had to contend with two megaquakes that occurred along the Nankai trench in 1944 and 1946.
The Independent23d
Japan raises probability of megaquake to over 80% in next 30 years
After World War II, Japan faced two megaquakes along the Nankai Trough in 1944 and 1946. Not all experts are convinced by predictions of an imminent Nankai Trough megaquake, however. Robert Geller ...
毎日新聞25d
Editorial: Japan PM Ishiba should join meeting on nuclear weapon abolition treaty
Third-from-left Terumi Tanaka of the Japan Confederation of A-and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, or Nihon Hidankyo, and others are seen with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, center, who is offering ...
朝日新聞社9d
EXPLAINER: Why frustration lingers in Okinawa 50 years later
Okinawa on Sunday marks the 50th anniversary of its return to Japan on May 15, 1972, which ended 27 years of U.S. rule after one of the bloodiest battles of World War II was fought on the southern ...
Time16d
JAPAN: Bonus to Be Wisely Spent
Her uncle was a major general who founded the Japanese cavalry; her brothers and sisters married into top families, including the Matsuokas and Yo-shidas. “Never forget you are a samurai,” she ...
The Australian Financial Review27d
Japan’s enduring fascination with kamikaze pilots
Despite numbering just 4000 out of more than 2 million Japanese deaths in World War II, kamikaze pilots hold an outsized place in the public consciousness. Alamy Stock Photo Books and films are ...
朝日新聞社19d
EDITORIAL: Turbulent times call for a world order not fixated on Trump’s U.S.
Eighty years after the end of World War II, Donald Trump assumed office as ... It is time for all nations, regardless of size or power, including Japan and those in Europe, to collaborate and ...
GaijinPot5d
What Happens If Japan Goes To War?
How would the international community react? Japan has not engaged in war since World War II, maintaining a pacifist stance under its post-war constitution. However, rising tensions in East ...