Japanese media, including The Asahi Shimbun, lauded them as the “nine war gods” in the wartime frenzy. The Navy knew that Sakamaki was alive and taken as a POW. But it would not divulge any ...

One survivor who remained silent for decades ... who only recently found out about the Japanese POWs in Siberia thanks to a movie. University student Ueda Ryosuke, left, interviewed Nishikura ...

POW Research Network Japan released “Horyoshuyojo Minkanjin-Yokuryujo Jiten” (Encyclopedia of POW camps and civilian internment camps) from Tokyo-based publisher Suirensha. The publication of ...

Who was to blame for the atrocities perpetrated on American POWs in the Philippines? While there is no easy answer to that question, one of the men who was charged with war crimes was Japanese ...

U.S. Navy Seaman 2nd Class John C. Auld, 23, was from Newcastle, England, and died aboard the USS Oklahoma on Dec. 7.

A student-exchange program between two high schools -- one in a rural Australian town where Japanese POWs were interned and one in Tokyo -- has helped heal the wounds of war. In July, Japanese ...

Japan's Agreements Over the course of the next century, more qualifications and rules were added to the conventions. Standards for the "humane treatment" of POWs were established in 1907 at an ...

more than 82 years after he was buried in a mass grave at a Japanese POW camp in the Philippines. Photo courtesy of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Nov. 13 (UPI) --The remains of U.S. Army ...

Robert Fernandez was 17 when his U.S. Navy ship was attacked by Japanese forces at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, when more than 2,300 U.S. servicemen were killed. The California man, 100, is one of ...

Relatives of American prisoners who were used as slave labourers during World War II have expressed anger at the purchase of US Steel by Nippon Steel Corp, claiming the Japanese company has made ...