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Japan Imperial Couple make memorial visit to Iwo Jima 80 years on

April 07, 2025

Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako on Monday made a visit to Ioto, widely known as Iwo Jima, to pay tribute to those who died in the fierce battles between Japan and the United States on the Pacific island 80 years ago.

Unresolved isle row with Russia regrettable: Japan's Ishiba

February 08, 2025

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, in a video message at a national rally held in Tokyo Friday, said it is "really regrettable" that the country's territorial row with Russia over four northwestern Pacific islands remains unresolved 80 years after the end of World War II.

Japanese WWII sword connects Japan, US seven decades later

TUESDAY, JULY 05, 2022

A Japanese sword belonging to a soldier of the Imperial Japanese Army was handed over to his surviving family members in Nichinan, Miyazaki Prefecture, on Saturday after being stored in a house in the United States for more than 70 years.

Biggest foreign-worker exodus since WWII adds to Britain's woes

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Foreign workers are leaving Britain at the fastest pace since World War II, presenting a challenge to an economy already roiled by Brexit and the coronavirus.

Comfort from a 102-year-old who has lived through a flu pandemic, the Depression and WWII

SUNDAY, APRIL 05, 2020

At Lucille Ellson's home, inside her brimming drawers, are hints of how the present mirrors the past.

After WWII, Churchill realised the need for a united Europe

THURSDAY, MAY 02, 2019

Re: “Confused about Brexit? It couldn’t be simpler…”, Have Your Say, May 2.

See Thai WWII history for proper understanding of ‘brutish and cruel’

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Re: “Britain is no land of saints and gentlemen”, Have Your Say, February 18.

Italy film recalls pain of forgotten WWII massacres

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2018

A new film is shining an uncomfortable light on the fate of thousands of Italians killed in massacres on the Yugoslav frontier at the end of the Second World War.

Last survivor of WWII raid on Rome's Jewish Ghetto dies

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2018

The last survivor of the 1943 Nazi raid on the Rome Ghetto, in which more than 1,000 Jews were taken away to concentration camps, has died aged 91, the Italian Jewish community said Friday.

Norway mourns WWII resistance fighter who halted the Nazis’ nuclear drive

MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2018

Norwegian World War II hero Joachim Ronneberg, who led a major sabotage operation against the Nazis in his occupied homeland, died on Sunday, aged 99.

Swiss police confirm 20 dead in WWII vintage plane crash

SUNDAY, AUGUST 05, 2018

Twenty people died after a vintage World War II aircraft crashed into a Swiss mountainside, police said Sunday.

It wasn’t Nazism that forced America into WWII

SUNDAY, JULY 15, 2018

Re: “Who stopped the Nazis?”, Letters, July 14-15.

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