Gold amassed by a Japanese general still lies in inaccessible spots throughout the Philippines. But unlike some other ...

Narrator: The past is always present in places that have endured conflict. On a recent fall morning in the town of Bugojno in central Bosnia-Herzegovina, a field owned by a local builder has been ...

Gen. Douglas MacArthur considered the Philippines’ capital of Manila to be his home, the place, he writes, where “My mother had died, my wife had been courted, my son had been born.” In the years ...

An American soldier watches Manila burn from the beach at Paranque on Feb. 8, 1945. From Rampage: MacArthur, Yamashita and the Battle of Manila, by James M. Scott. National Archives and Records ...

I am a chronicler of empire, and for me the most vividly fateful spot in Asia, a landmark where one empire allegorically gave way to another, is an unprepossessing industrial building in the heart of ...

Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita, former commander of all Japanese forces on the Philippines and said to be responsible for the Bataan death march, as he appeared on his arrival in Manila, October 13, 1945, ...

In a fading black-and-white photo snapped 70 years ago, Japanese Gen. Masaharu Homma, history’s “Beast of Bataan,” sits stoically on a hard bench in a makeshift Manila, Philippines, courtroom. He is ...

To Suzuki-san, Japan’s man in the street, this was a day of days. By special dispensation of the Son of the Sun, he could take a bite of sweetmeats, and he was allowed enough extra sake to make the ...