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90-year-old of Japanese descent in Philippines to attain citizenship

Kyodo News
Updated as of May 16 03:36 PM

A 90-year-old man of Japanese descent in the Philippines, who is stateless due to the turmoil after World War II, is on track to acquire long-sought Japanese citizenship, it was learned Wednesday. Read more »

War museum in Tarlac town at risk of shutting down due to DPWH project

Rose Carmelle Lacuata, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 22 10:49 PM

A World War II museum in the town of Bamban in Tarlac is at risk of shutting down due to a road-widening project by the Department of Public Works and Highways. Read more »

WWII bomb goes off in Poland during defusal op

Stanislaw Waszak and Anna Maria Jakubek, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 14 03:53 AM

The device -- nicknamed "Tallboy" and also known as an "earthquake bomb" -- was dropped by the Royal Air Force in an attack on a Nazi warship in 1945. Read more »

Japan regrets new Korean "comfort women" statue set up in Berlin

Kyodo News
Posted at Sep 29 05:35 PM

Japan regrets the recent installation in Berlin of a statue of a girl symbolizing Korean women who were forced to work in Japanese wartime military brothels, its top government spokesman said Tuesday. Read more »

Japan commemorates 75th year of Nagasaki bombing

Philip Fong, AFP
Posted at Aug 09 01:17 PM

People take part in a ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, at the Nagasaki Peace Park on Sunday.  Read more »

Nagasaki marks 75th anniversary of U.S. atomic bombing

Ayano Shimizu, Kyodo News
Updated as of Aug 09 12:16 PM

The mayor of Nagasaki on Sunday pushed the Japanese government to take more action toward realizing a world free of nuclear weapons, amid a global retreat of leadership on the issue, at a memorial ceremony on the 75th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city. Read more »

WWII tunnel sa Bukidnon, dineklarang Provincial Historical Site

Rod Bolivar, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Aug 05 11:13 PM

Dineklara kamakailan bilang Provincial Historical Site ng Bukidnon ang lumang man-made tunnel sa bayan ng Cabanglasan. Read more »

Japan's war memorial service to go online amid coronavirus spread

Kyodo News
Posted at Aug 04 04:26 PM

TOKYO - The government said Tuesday it will, for the first time, livestream Japan's annual memorial service that remembers the victims of World War II, on Aug. 15, as the coronavirus pandemic has forced it to hold the event on a smaller scale. Read more »

75 years on, Japan bomb survivors make final pleas for abolition

Kyoko Hasegawa, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 04 12:22 PM

As Japan marks 75 years since the devastating attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the last generation of nuclear bomb survivors are working to ensure their message lives on after them. Read more »

Taiwan to shut down 1st "comfort women" museum amid COVID-19

Kyodo News
Posted at Jul 06 09:21 PM

TAIPEI - Financial hardship is forcing Taiwan's first museum dedicated to Taiwanese "comfort women" forced to work in Japan's wartime military brothels to shut down in November, the museum's owner said Monday. Read more »

Moscow celebrates Victory Day

Mikhail Voskresenskiy, Host photo agency via Reuters
Posted at Jun 24 10:15 PM

Russian sailors march during the Victory Day Parade in Red Square in Moscow, Russia on Wednesday. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: May 8, 2020

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 09 03:41 AM

Here are the day's top stories in photos Read more »

Berlin Marks VE Day in one-off public holiday

Fabrizio Bensch, Reuters
Posted at May 08 04:07 PM

World War Two veteran Seman Kleinmann, 94, attends a celebration to mark Victory Day and the 75th anniversary of the end of World War 2 at the Soviet War Memorial at Tiergarten Park in Berlin, Germany on Friday.  Read more »

Vintage bomb natagpuan sa NAIA runway

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 07 12:18 PM

Isang bomba na mula pa noong World War 2 ang narekober ng mga awtoridad sa madamong bahagi ng runway ng Ninoy Aquino International Airport nitong Miyerkoles. Read more »

Epidemic lockdown: little comparison for WWII survivors

Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 06 06:26 PM

People in five countries -- Russia, Israel, England, France and Germany -- who survived the upheaval of the 1940s gave AFP their take on what is happening today. Read more »

Queen Elizabeth invokes WW2 spirit: We can defeat the coronavirus

Michael Holden, Reuters
Posted at Apr 06 07:26 AM

Queen Elizabeth told the British people on Sunday that they would overcome the coronavirus outbreak if they stayed resolute in the face of lockdown and self-isolation, invoking the spirit of World War Two in an extremely rare broadcast to the nation. Read more »

Europe toll tops 30,000 as UN warns of world's worst crisis since WWII

Mariette Le Roux, Michael Mathes, Hazel Ward and Dmitry Zaks, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 01 09:42 PM

The coronavirus pandemic has claimed more than 30,000 lives in Europe alone, a global tally showed Wednesday, in what the head of the United Nations has described as humanity's worst crisis since World War II. Read more »

Coronavirus the worst global crisis since WWII, says UN chief

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 01 08:01 AM

The coronavirus pandemic is the worst global crisis since World War II, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Tuesday, expressing concern that it could trigger conflicts around the world. Read more »

This book paints a picture of unoccupied Leyte during World War 2

Rolando O. Borrinaga
Updated as of Oct 15 06:57 PM

In time for the 75th celebration of the Leyte Gulf landings, the journals of Orville Babcock, an American who got stranded during the war, will be launched. This is a rare civilian account of a time when conflicts and challenges came from different directions. Read more »

Germany asks Polish forgiveness 80 years after WWII outbreak

Anna Maria Jakubek and Stanislaw Waszak, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 02 07:06 AM

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Sunday asked Poland's forgiveness 80 years after Germany's attack triggered World War II while his Polish counterpart denounced Russia's recent "imperialist" aggression against its neighbors.   Read more »