Activist demands Japan revoke award for US general behind 500,000 deaths in WWII
Gushiken Takamatsu said Curtis LeMay, who orchestrated the firebombing, should never have been given the honour A peace ...
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Explosion shakes Okinawa wharf as Japan clears unexploded WWII ordnance
Eleven explosive ordnance disposal divers from the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force’s Sub Area Activity Okinawa unit set off ...
U.S. Army veteran brings WWII good luck flag home to Japanese family
U.S. Army veteran Chris Dorsey returns a WWII good luck flag to a fallen Japanese soldier’s family, bringing closure and ...
Japan PM to attend ceremony at WWII battle site Ioto on March 29
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is arranging to attend a memorial service later this month at the site of a fierce ...
An Okinawan bone digger searches for remains from one of the fiercest battles of World War II
As a volunteer cave digger, Takamatsu Gushiken has unearthed the remains of several hundred people. Excavation is not his ...
Pentagon Flags WWII Plane That Nuked Japan as Woke
The Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber “Enola Gay,” which dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, was not, in fact, gay ...
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Japan's Sunken Super Weapon That Nearly Changed WW2
On December 19, 1944, the East China Sea became the stage for a high-stakes submarine duel. Japan’s newest aircraft carrier, ...
Okinawan bone digger searches for the remains of WWII dead and worries their lessons are unheard
Takamatsu Gushiken hunts caves in Okinawa’s jungles for the bones of those who died in the WWII Battle of Okinawa, one of the ...
A Plea for Justice for Japan’s So-Called Comfort Women
Mina Watanabe has made it her life’s work to tell the stories of the women who were sexually enslaved by the Japanese ...
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Iwo Jima veteran recalls ‘terrible, terrible’ battle 80 years after WWII
His 10 days at Iwo Jima were a “terrible, terrible experience with dead people everywhere,” he told Stars and Stripes in a ...
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Pentagon Flags WWII Plane That Nuked Japan as Woke
Japan, in World War II. Thinking individuals will be unsurprised to learn that the Enola Gay was not actually named after the sexual orientation. The plane was named after the mother of its pilot ...