The Japanese began to bomb American bases in the Philippines hours after the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor that launched the United States into World War II. By the spring of 1942, Japanese ...

The painful history of Asian women forced to become sexual chattel during World War II — so-called “comfort women” — is most often associated with South Korea, where protests and demands for Japanese ...

Back in May 1942, after an incredibly successful campaign in the Pacific Theatre, the Japanese captured the last bastion of us resistance against them. Corregidor, officially named Fort Mills, was an ...

A museum in Puerto Princesa, the largest city on the Philippines’ westernmost island province, boasts an impressive collection of weapons, photographs, uniforms, vehicles and other relics of World War ...