Japanese Americans held in prison camps were allowed to return home. But much of what they'd left behind was gone: homes, ...

Still Japan refused to accept unconditional surrender ... which - along with other buildings at the prison camp site in Anda - was partially destroyed by Unit 731 in August 1945 to erase ...

Ippei Mizuhara and his camp were swarmed by members of the Japanese and American media after the disgraced MLB interpreter was sentenced to more than four years behind federal prison. The sentencing ...

But this isn’t a nursing home – it’s Japan’s largest women’s prison. The population here reflects the aging society outside, and the pervasive problem of loneliness that guards say is so ...

Several weeks earlier, the Palawan Massacre took place in the Philippines, where 139 American POWs were killed by Japanese ...

The weather-beaten flag bears the names of men who endured the infamous Bataan Death March and rode the "hell ships" to Japan, defying the odds by their survival. They lived long enough, at least, to ...

the Japanese and Japanese Americans — men, women, kids, two, three generations of families who had been locked up in wartime incarceration camps like Manzanar — were allowed to start leaving ...