On the 15th of August 1945, the Japanese Emperor Hirohito gave a speech on the radio in which he announced the unconditional ...
A new documentary is looking to shine a light on Japanese-Americans who were placed in internment camps by the U.S. government during World War II. Despite a ban on cameras inside the camps, the ...
In the final year of World War II, American forces faced an enemy that refused to fight above ground. Across the Pacific, ...
NEW YORK — In “The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On,” a 1987 documentary that takes many abrupt twists and turns, one of the most surprising comes about a half-hour in. The Japanese director Kazuo Hara ...
Two friends, connected by family histories on opposite sides of World War II, set out to explore the lasting trauma of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. While Japanese hibakusha (survivors) endure ...