As the Pacific War intensified, Japan launched a daring offensive far from home. In 1942, Japanese forces struck deep into the Indian Ocean, raiding Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and threatening the British ...

Sept. 2 marks the 80th anniversary of Japan's formal World War II surrender. The capitulation was by design forceful and imposing, an absolutely made for Hollywood event — as in Hollywood documentary ...

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Karin Tanabe and Victoria Kelly explore the ramifications of atomic bombings on Japan in their documentary, "Atomic Echoes," streaming on PBS. (Beatrice Becette for Blue Chalk Media) Michas Ohnstad ...

Takeuchi, originally from Chiba Prefecture near Tokyo, first visited China in 2010 to produce the three-part documentary A ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan is paying tribute to more than 3 million war dead as the country marks its surrender 80 years ago, ending World War II, as concern grows about the rapidly fading memories of the ...

The documentary Why We Dream premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, now underway in New York City, presenting the audience with an emotional examination of how war shapes society and the individual.

YOKOHAMA, Japan — On the 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II, the names of more than 1,000 troops who died as prisoners of war were read aloud Tuesday during a memorial ceremony at ...

TOKYO — As Japan's defeat marking the end of WWII nears its 80th anniversary, and some events fade from living memory, history is hardly consigned to books. It lives on in unhealed wounds, ...

Date: Wednesday, April 30 th Time: 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM Location: Washington Hall 308 Four short documentaries will be shown as part of the event. 7:00 ~ NO農家 「NO農家」is about Kazuyoshi Sugimoto’s efforts ...