By SHUICHI YUTAKA/ Senior Staff Writer
October 17, 2020 at 07:00 JST
This photo shows a POW camp that used to stand near the Hosokura mine in Miyagi Prefecture. (Photo owned by the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration and provided by the POW Research Network Japan)
Despite limited resources and a dwindling number of witnesses, a citizens group has continued efforts to determine conditions in POW camps in Japan where 10 percent of the captured combatants died in World War II. [Read More]
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A series based on diplomatic documents declassified by Japan’s Foreign Ministry
A series on the death of a Japanese woman that sparked a debate about criminal justice policy in the United States
A series about Japanese-Americans and their memories of World War II
Here is a collection of first-hand accounts by “hibakusha” atomic bomb survivors.