Chinese vessel accused of looting WWII British warship wrecks detained in Malaysia

Crew members of a Chinese vessel suspected of plundering World War II shipwrecks were recently detained by Malaysia’s coast guard.  On...

Chinese discovery of WWII bunker of Japanese scientists may lead to new war crimes evidence

Chinese archaeologists have uncovered an underground “horror bunker” that was purportedly used by Japanese scientists to conduct experiments...

Taiwan’s last ‘comfort woman’ survivor dies at 92

On Tuesday, Taiwan’s foreign ministry announced that the island’s last known survivor of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery has died at th...

Japanese American author calls out Scholastic for asking her to cut ‘racism’ from kid’s book

Maggie Tokuda-Hall, an Oakland author of Japanese descent, has called out Scholastic’s “deeply offensive” suggested revisions to her 2022 ch...

The grain of life: How rice is cooked in 6 different Asian countries

As a staple food throughout much of Asia, rice holds significant historical and cultural worth. Language in particular can reveal valuable i...

Japan payment of less than $1 to Korean WWII victims for forced labor draws outrage

A civic group in South Korea has denounced the less- than- one- dollar pension payment from the Japanese government to victims of forced la...

Families of 11 Filipino WWII vets receive Congressional Gold Medal after 76-year wait for recognition

The names of 11 Filipino World War II veterans were read and recognized at a ceremony held at the Filipino Community Center in Honolulu on ...

Tearful WWII vet says on his 100th birthday that current state of America is ‘not what they died for’

On his 100th birthday, World War II veteran Carl Dekel lamented the current state of America in an emotional interview with Fox13. The Sil...

40 Japanese Americans interned while students during WWII receive high school diplomas 80 years later

Forty Japanese American students who were denied their chance to graduate during World War II finally received their diplomas from Mt. Diab...

96-year-old Japanese WWII POW warns Russia-Ukraine is history repeating itself

Akiyoshi Chikada, a 96-year-old Japanese man who was formerly interned in Ukraine during World War II, says that history is repeating itself...

Ukraine removes Emperor Hirohito from Hitler, Mussolini video after anger and protests from Japan

Amid protests from Japan, Ukraine has removed an image of former Japanese leader Emperor Hirohito from a video uploaded online that showed ...

China, South Korea condemn honoring of war dead at WWII shrine by Japan PM and over 100 lawmakers

Over 100 lawmakers paid their respects this week at the Yasukuni Shrine, honoring millions of war dead, while Prime Minister Kishida sent a...

‘I will continue to be brave’: Surviving WWII Filipino ‘comfort women’ fight for recognition, apology

The remaining Filipino women who were forced into sexual slavery by Imperial Japan during World War II are planning to submit a petition to...

USC awards honorary degrees, dedicates rock garden to incarcerated Japanese American students of WWII

On April 1, the University of Southern California opened a traditional Japanese rock garden to honor 120 Japanese American students who wer...

Japan dismisses South Korea complaint over new textbooks that ‘distort’ historical, territorial facts

Japan has rejected South Korea’s protest against Japan’s approval of textbooks that allegedly “distort historical facts.” South Korea’s fo...

South Korea says new history textbooks in Japan ‘distorts facts’ about World War II sex slavery

After Japan approved new history textbooks, South Korea made a formal complaint that the books distorted “historical facts” about forced la...

Chinese American WWII veterans receive long-overdue medals of honor for their service

New York City’s Chinatown recognized and presented service medals to Chinese American World War II veterans for their service. Hundreds of p...

Meet 104-year-old Chen Ping Ching, the last living member of WWII’s legendary ‘Flying Tigers’ squadron

On Aug. 15, Japan entered the 76th year since its defeat in World War II. Addressing a crowd of less than 200 people — the smallest audience...

How Spam Became a Luxury Item in South Korea

After the U.S., the world’s largest consumer of Spam is South Korea. But how did a simple processed meat product turn into a popular luxury ...

Meet the War Hero Who Invented Banana Ketchup

When indulging in hot dogs, French fries or Spam, you might reach for an ever-so-trustworthy bottle of tomato ketchup. But if you want to ad...

This Man Ordered the Attack on Pearl Harbor

It took 75 years for a disgraced family in Japan to finally find peace. Last month, the remains of Hideki Tojo, the man who served as Japan’...

Meet Mitsuye Endo, The Woman Whose Supreme Court Case Ended Japanese Concentration Camps

Mitsuye Endo is an unsung hero who was the only plaintiff to win a court case that led to the process of ending Japanese American incarcerat...

California Dedicates Jan. 30 to Fred Korematsu Who Defied Japanese American Concentration Camps

California dedicated Jan. 30 to the memory of Fred Korematsu, a shipyard welder who legally objected to Japanese American “internment” in Wo...

Arcadia Appoints First Japanese American as New Police Chief

Arcadia, a city in California known as a Japanese incarceration site during World War II, has appointed its first Japanese American police c...

Meet the Chinese Man Who Saved Over 5,000 Jews During the Holocaust

In an act of heroism that barely made it to history textbooks, one Chinese man had been responsible for saving thousands of Jewish people in...

Trump Ends Obama Program That Lets Families of Filipino WWII Veterans Stay in the U.S.

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced its intention to terminate a parole program that intends to help Filipino Wo...

Malaysian Billionaire Recalls Friends Getting ‘Raped and Killed’ by Japanese During World War II

Malaysian tycoon Robert Kuok recalled all the horrifying moments he encountered during the occupation of the Southeast Asian country, former...

Hiroshima Teen Gets Asked if Japanese People Hate Americans for Atomic Bombing, Their Answer is Beautiful

This week, the world remembered the first atomic bomb that the U.S. dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, a move that killed 70,000 peo...

The Truth Behind the ‘Iconic’ Image of Female Firefighters in Pearl Harbor

A photograph of four young women purportedly hosing a fire during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor has appeared on several mainstream pub...

‘Fox and Friends’ Host Remembers When America ‘Defeated Communist Japan’

Ainsley Earhardt, one of the hosts of “Fox & Friends,” made a mistake on national television when she recalled the United States defeati...

Meet the ‘First Lady of Physics’ Who Helped the U.S. Win World War II

The United States may have cemented its victory in the Second World War after its successful testing of the atomic bomb on July 16, 1945. Bu...

Meet Daniel Inouye, Literally One of the Greatest Asian American Heroes Ever

The late, great United States Senator Daniel Inouye was a soldier, a statesman, and an American unlike any other. Considered to be one of th...

Japanese American Soldier Saves 130 in WWII — Now His Son is Searching For Their Families

The son of a Japanese-American infantry man who saved 130 Japanese soldiers and civilians in the Battle of Saipan in 1944 has started lookin...

SF Bay Area Schools Will Finally Include WWII Sacrifices of Filipinos in History Books

Starting this semester, grade 11 history books in the San Francisco Bay Area will include information on the sacrifices of Filipino veterans...

New Museum Reminds The World of Japanese Concentration Camps During WW2

The newly established Topaz Museum in Delta, Utah held its grand opening ceremony this weekend, a testament to the 11,212 Japanese-Americans...

Rare Footage of Hiroshima Before the U.S. Dropped an Atomic Bomb Released

Last week, the Hiroshima Peace Museum released newly digitized footage of Hiroshima in 1935, approximately ten years before the U.S. dropped...