Philippine scout officers and enlisted men, who had escaped from the Japanese ... of World War II. This website was made possible through a collaboration between the U.S. Army Center for Military ...

Tomesuke Umeki, an officer in the Imperial Japanese Army, carried the sword with him when he left Takaharu around 1941 for a Japanese-controlled territory during the Pacific War. He traveled from ...

By the time World War II ended ... when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, more than 3,500 miles away from his suburban ...

On a cloudless day off the Philippines coast, Shigetoshi Kaneko held onto floating debris while adrift, clinging to hope after esc ...

Both the United States and Great Britain tested biological weapons during World War II, but for ethical reasons such tests were limited to animal subjects. Japanese medical officer Shiro Ishii had ...

Interview tapes from the 1970s that feature a late Japanese diplomat and Class-A ... connection with the country was kindled by his army-officer father, who had spent some years in Berlin.

US Marine Corps Photo Japan’s military ... World War II, attributing the outlook to China, Russia, North Korea and instability in the Middle East. The chiefs vowed to strengthen the Japanese ...