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The end of the long march

CARLSBAD, Calif. — Sixty-seven years ago this month, on April 9, 1942, I was surrendered to the Japanese Imperial Army on the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines. At my first prison camp, the Japanese commandant turned to the American prisoners of w... ...full story at Japan Times

from Japan Times on Tue, Apr 14 2009

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08 Mar 08		Art Troness - WWII American POW 13 of 13  »  YouTube videoArthur Troness 1919-2008 In this last clip, Art talks about the difficult adjustment back to "normal" life. American POW - captured after the Philippines fell to the Japanese, and spent 3 1/2 years in prison camps in the Philippines and Japan. His...
31 May 09		Ambassador apologizes to U.S. vets taken prisoner in Philippines  »  Japan Times WASHINGTON (Kyodo) Japanese Ambassador to the U.S. Ichiro Fujisaki offered a direct apology Saturday to a group of World War II veterans taken prisoner by the Imperial Japanese Army in the Philippines. Thousands of them died during the infamous Bataan...
02 May 07		U.S. professor recalls Bataan Death March horror  »  Japan Times LOS ANGELES (Kyodo) An American professor has dedicated his life to telling others of the brutality he endured while he was a prisoner of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. Read more . . .
13 Apr 09		National › Imperial Japanese Army grenade found in Hokkaido town  »  Japan Today A hand grenade identical to those used by the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II was found next to the garage of a house…
04 Nov 08		Escapee gives glimpse of North prison camps  »  Japan Times Shin Dong Hyuk had just turned 14 when he was forced to watch the executions of his mother and older brother for trying to escape from North Korea's "total control" prison camp No. 14, a Stalinist gulag for political prisoners. His mother was hanged; his...
03 Jul 09		Old army maps find peacetime role  »  Japan Times SENDAI (Kyodo) Environmental research and disaster-prevention are among peaceful goals Japanese researchers are striving for as they peruse thousands of topographic maps of the Asia-Pacific region produced secretly by the Imperial Japanese Army. ...

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