and "Letters From Iwo Jima," starring Ken Watanabe. He discusses World War II-era munitions in "The Pacific," starring Joseph Mazzello and Rami Malek. He separates fact from fiction in Michael Bay ...

Born in Tokyo in May, 1926, Watanabe studied philosophy at the University of Tokyo, which was interrupted during the World War II when he was drafted into the Imperial Army, before joining the ...

In an interview with NHK, or Japan Broadcasting Corp., aired in August 2020, Watanabe talked about his experience in World War II and behind-the-scenes politics in the postwar period. He sent a ...

Mina Watanabe has made it her life’s work to tell the stories of the women who were sexually enslaved by the Japanese military before and during World War II. By Vivian Morelli Reporting from ...

Watanabe was seeing it for the first time in this 80th year since the end of World War II. Munesada was an Asahi Shimbun reporter stationed in Okinawa during the war. He wrote stories in an ...