As the United States was violently thrust into World War 2 by the treacherous attack on Pearl Harbor, a deep-seated dread ...

FOR Hiroo Onoda, the Second World War did not end in 1945. The fanatical Japanese soldier did not believe his country had ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with filmmaker Werner Herzog about his debut novel, The Twilight World. It tells the story of Hiroo Onoda, the Japanese soldier who kept fighting decades after the end of WWII.

Ted to his friends and family – is spending the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, which marked the end of the Second World War, at ...

Ahead of the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, how Japan's leaders took their country into a conflict it would be impossible to win ...

The family of a World War Two soldier has discovered a novel he wrote based on his experiences fighting in the Burma campaign ...

Like the Japanese soldier hiding in the jungle, it’s time for Coleman to get the latest news and then drop this fight. As Steve Bright says, “At the end of the day, it’s just not worth it.” ...

TOKYO: Mitsuaki Yoshino has few memories of his father, Kumazo, who died in Indonesia during World War II. He considers three ...