In February 1942, part of the ceiling of a mine shaft collapsed, flooding the mine and killing the 183 workers inside.

The use of national security rhetoric to justify mass incarceration today echoes the same logic that led to their forced ...

Yan'an, Chongqing and Shenyang form an obtuse triangle on China's map. Like hundreds of other cities, they each hold memories ...

Two Competing Histories: Japan’s post-war traditional narrative renounces militarism, upholds Article 9, and treats WWII as a ...

She is affiliated with the Burma Campaign Society. To mark 80 years since the end of the second world war, a group of ten ...

Japan’s largest Yakuza crime syndicate has pledged to end its longstanding war with a rival faction and refrain from causing “trouble,” authorities said, as the mafia-like groups contend ...

Eighty years have passed since Japan’s surrender ended the second world war. But the way Japan thinks about its wartime ...