80 years after World War II, Okinawa’s battle sites are still giving up bones and bombs
An estimated 240,000 people were killed or went missing in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Eighty years later, the ...
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The Moving Story of Bringing Baseball Back to Manzanar, Where Thousands of Japanese Americans Were Incarcerated During World War II
In honor of his mother and others imprisoned at the internment camp, baseball player Dan Kwong has restored a diamond in the ...
Hegseth joins WWII memorial service on his first trip to Japan and vows to strengthen alliance
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth praised Saturday the friendship and trust that his country and Japan have developed ...
The American Picture Book’s Unsung Parent: Japan
Missing for decades from the Anglophile version of its origin story was another great visual narrative tradition, of the East ...
War heroes are among 26,000 images flagged for removal in Pentagon's DEI purge
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had given the military until Wednesday to remove content highlighting diversity efforts ...
Japanese photojournalist's new book spotlights Ukrainian people's resilience
A local photojournalist here will publish a book compiling pictures he took in war-torn Ukraine over a span of more than 200 ...
The winding tale of the Sugihara visas, that saved Jews from the Holocaust, led them to Japan and landed them in Canada
A Montreal photographer recognized a photo of a beautiful young woman in a scrapbook, sparking a train of other discoveries ...
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War Heroes and Military Firsts Are Among 26,000 Images Flagged for Removal in Pentagon's Diversity Purge
Japan, during World War II. Several photos of an Army Corps of Engineers dredging project in California were marked for deletion, apparently because a local engineer in the photo had the last name ...
31 rare photos of Kim Jong Un and his family
The Kim family has ruled North Korea since 1948. Photos show Kim Jong Un's relatives, from his grandfather to his daughter, ...
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War heroes, military firsts and the Enola Gay are among 26,000 Pentagon images flagged for removal in DEI purge
Japan, during World War II. Several photos of an Army Corps of Engineers dredging project in California were marked for deletion, apparently because a local engineer in the photo had the last name ...
Enola Gay Aircraft—And Other Historic Items—Inaccurately Targeted Under Pentagon’s Anti-DEI Purge
References to the aircraft—which dropped the first war-time atomic bomb—were flagged for removal from Pentagon photos and online posts as part of a DEI purge, presumably because of the word “gay.” ...