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US Ally in Conflict With Russia Since World War II Offers Truce
The dispute over the Russian-controlled Kuril Islands dates back to World War II. The Japanese foreign ministry reiterated ...
Airman who was shot down, imprisoned in Japan during World War II accounted for
A World War II airman who was taken captive by Japanese forces and died in a prison fire after his plane was shot down has ...
80 years after World War II, Okinawa’s battle sites are still giving up bones and bombs
An estimated 240,000 people were killed or went missing in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Eighty years later, the ...
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80 years after World War II, Okinawa’s battle sites are still giving up bones and bombs
He spends much of his free time in caves like this in Okinawa, Japan’s southernmost prefecture ... according to the National World War II Museum in Louisiana. Those lives were lost in a ...
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Japan emperor visits World War II battleground Iwo Jima
Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako on Monday made a rare visit to the tiny Pacific island of Iwo Jima to mark the ...
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80 years after World War II, Okinawa’s battle sites are still giving up bones and bombs
Itoman, Japan (CNN) — The “bone digger” slides ... remains of people who hid in caves like this one during the World War II Battle of Okinawa. This is the life’s work of the bone digger ...
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Japan emperor visits World War II battleground Iwo Jima
Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako on Monday made a rare visit to the tiny Pacific island of Iwo Jima to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. The Japanese island ...