The Tokyo trials were not the only forum for the punishment of Japanese war criminals, merely the most visible. In fact, the Asian countries victimized by the Japanese war machine tried far more ...

But, in the years after the war, the names of many Japanese Americans had been lost or mispelled. Poor record-keeping by the U.S. government meant that no one knew exactly how many people had been ...

Nearly 80 years after the end of World War II, 1.2 million Japanese war dead are still unaccounted for. That’s about half of the 2.4 million Japanese, mostly soldiers, who died during Japan’s ...