Japan’s Mitsubishi Materials made a landmark apology to US prisoners of war forced to work in its mines during World War II, seven decades after the conflict. The Japanese government only officially ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In early 1945, as World War II ground toward its final months, residents of southwest Iowa learned that a new group of prisoners ...

On the morning of September 21, 1944, more than 1,200 British and Dutch prisoners of war were packed into two stifling cargo holds below the deck of the Hofuku Maru. The men were so tightly crammed ...

A Japanese ship was in a convoy steaming through the South China Sea on September 21, 1944, with around 1,200 British and Dutch prisoners of war crammed in its holds. US warplanes, mistaking the ...

The Pentagon has launched one of its largest-ever underwater recovery missions to retrieve American remains from the Oryoku Maru, sunk in Subic Bay in 1944. They survived the fall of Bataan, endured ...

Copies of sketches and writings from the World War II diary of a Japanese engineer who was stationed in the Philippines at the time and became a prisoner-of-war are on display at a museum in Manila ...

A Chinese museum has released disturbing details of human experiments conducted by Japan's notorious Unit 731 during World War II. Newly highlighted records describe prisoners being subjected to ...

Divers have found the wreck of the Hofuku Maru off Luzon in the Philippines. The Japanese freighter sank in 1944 with over 1,200 Allied POWs; a digitised military file finally solved the mystery. View ...