A World War II memorial service was held at the Chidorigafuchi National Cemetery in Tokyo on Monday, with no COVID-19-linked restriction on the number of participants in place. The cemetery …
Naha, Okinawa Pref. – A ceremony was held Monday to mark the completion of the framework of Shuri Castle’s main hall as part of restoration work for the fire-destroyed castle …
Photography has long played an instrumental role in preserving moments — some mundane, some good, and others downright horrific. A photo album from Auschwitz fits squarely in the latter group, …
Like the Underground Railroad, the Leica Freedom Train was not a physical object or location but a monumental and dangerous effort to save people from persecution and even death. During …
Economic security minister Sanae Takaichi on Tuesday visited war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo during its three-day spring festival from Sunday. She signed a visitors’ book as a minister and made …
Seoul – South Korea on Sunday protested Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s offering to Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine with “deep disappointment” and urged Japanese leaders to show repentance for the country’s wartime …
After scooping up seven Oscars — including best picture — and grossing over $950 million at the box office, Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” has definitely earned its place among the most …
The Majdanek death camp (Image: Sovfoto/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Amid the barbed wire, gas chambers and shooting pits of the horrific Majdanek concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland, Countess …
The Defense Ministry has punished the Ground Self-Defense Force’s vice chief of staff and two others over the use of official cars for their group visit to Tokyo’s war-linked Yasukuni …
The vice chief of staff of the Ground Self-Defense Force visited the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo earlier this week with his subordinates, the Defense Ministry has said. The ministry …