In August 1941, four months before the United States entered World War II, a 26-year-old tailor named Shoichi Yokoi was drafted into the Japanese Imperial Army. For about two years, he served with the ...
On the 15th of August 1945, the Japanese empire capitulated after the United States threw atomic bombs on Hiroshima and ...
In one of the most astonishing true stories of World War II, Japanese soldier Hiroo Onoda stayed hidden on Lubang Island in the Philippines, continuing his mission for nearly three decades - because ...