That war morale among the Children of the Rising Sun may not be quite that bright is strongly hinted in a Japanese war diary, not yet published in English, called Wheat and Soldiers, ...

Japanese Prisoner of War Diary by EHBoswell. You are browsing in: ... After a while the Japanese wanted some drivers to drive the trucks and so about 18 of us were sorted out and sent out with them.

Japan's wartime leader Emperor Hirohito said there was “no point in living” if it meant he would continue to be blamed for the country’s resounding defeat in World War II, according to newly ...

Plans are under way for a new memorial in Pembrokeshire for Japanese sailors who died when their ship was torpedoed by a German U-boat in the Irish Sea. Just 29 of the 320 on board the Hirano Maru ...

The diary was deposited with the University of Tokyo in 2019 and became available to the public this year, which marks the 80th year of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 (Dec. 8 ...

At the time, he began searching for diaries, eventually collecting more than 150. His two-decade project to bring the journals of ordinary Japanese during the war years into the English-speaking ...

The Zen Diary is written and directed by Japanese filmmaker Yûji Nakae, director of the films Nabbie's Love, Hotel Hibiscus, Koishikute, A Midsummer Night's Dream.

IMABARI, Ehime -- A young man's diary, written from the late stages of the Pacific War to the postwar period, is now on display at a museum in Japan's ...

Diaries of a Japanese war criminal reveal 'how irrational war truly is,' son says. Katsuya Toji looks at Jizo statues, which his father Kentaro had installed in his garden to honor the men he had ...