For the first time, the numbers of prisoners of war incarcerated at camps across Japan during World War II and their captivity and forced labor in appalling conditions have been documented in detail.

Around 2 a.m. on August 5, 1944, a Japanese man in distress climbed over a fence at the Cowra prisoner-of-war camp in New South Wales, Australia. He “was weeping and appeared to be in great fear,” an ...

TOKYO (AP) — The prisoners of war held in Tokyo’s Omori POW camp saw some of the most horrific destruction during the last months of World War II, as American B-29 bombers dropped incendiary bombs ...

Eighty years after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the first Japanese prisoner of war has been freed from the stigma and reunited ...

U.S. Army Air Forces Pfc. Weber S. Underwood, who died in 1942, was among the captives subjected to the 65-mile Bataan Death ...

A team of 15 specialist divers dove into waters off the coast of the Philippines last month—initiating a forensic recovery operation that one Pentagon scientist said could take "months or years." ...

A World War II U.S. Army private from Boone County whose remains were unidentified until last year — 83 years after he died in a Japanese POW camp in the Philippines — will be laid to rest with full ...