Students of the occupation period are stunned by how readily the Japanese remade their country along an American model. Although this is often ascribed to the particular Japanese talent for ...

Emperor Hirohito’s announcement of the Japanese surrender on Aug 15,1945, was the greatest news to the suffering people of Malaya. After the war, my father recounted to me that thousands of ...

Despite the fear of the Japanese there was a brief period of mass celebration as ... I felt overjoyed to forget about the occupation, even just for a day. Although we were poor, my brother paid ...

World War II and the Japanese occupation of the Philippines is not my area of specialization. What little I know of it is ...

a period that includes the Japanese occupation of Korea and the second world war. For those who find history to be tedious, this is a book that will help change that mindset. ‘The Manningtree ...

Japan will officially describe the Northern Territories as under the “illegal occupation” of Russia, reviving an expression that was dropped after 2003. The Foreign Ministry’s draft for the ...