TOTTORI, Japan — A Japanese court has denied a nationality request from a 95-year-old Japanese-Filipino woman who was left in the Philippines after World War II, her lawyer announced Friday. Rosalina Kamba Fernandez applied at the Tottori…
KIANGAN, Ifugao, Philippines – It was in the 1990s when I first saw the so called Yamashita shrine in this Cordilleran town that marked the capture of General Tomoyuki Yamashita on September 2, 1945. Yamashita, known as…
Eighty years ago, the pre-recorded announcement of Emperor Hirohito on August 14, 1945 verbally accepting the terms of surrender that ended Second World War reverberated throughout Japan via radio. The United States earlier detonated two atomic bombs over…
“Never Forget” is an expression and political slogan used to urge others to remember the events surrounding a national tragedy. It was first used in relation to the damages brought by World War II which started as…
I spent Valentines Day watching a concert of the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra (PPO) not directly about traditional love but one that imparts narratives of love of country, solemn heroism and resiliency, Through the universal language of music,…
I have always wondered why there is no major war museum in Manila, no peace museum in a city that has often been described as the second most devastated city of World War II after Warsaw. The…
Like other Filipina comfort women, Lola Hilaria Bustamante died still fighting without receiving justice. Lola Hilaria passed away last Saturday, March 18, 2023 at the age of 97, 10 days after the UN Committee on the Elimination…
“Never Forget” is an expression and political slogan used to urge others to remember the events surrounding a national tragedy. It was first used in relation to the damages brought by World War II which started as a…
Whenever I reflect on the sorry state of the country, I always remember the time my father cut me off from whining by declaring: “You don’t know what you are talking about. You think your life is…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — History came to life once again during the 77th commemoration of the American landing on the shores of Talisay City that led to Cebu’s liberation from the shackles of imperial Japan. For two…
The portrayal of “comfort women” as willingly-paid sex workers is a misleading attempt to rewrite history and silence the victims of sexual slavery during World War II. A recent uproar began after the paper of Harvard Law School professor…
The recent deaths of three World War II women victims of sexual slavery and violence are manifestations that the survivors are dying without receiving a formal apology and legal compensation from Japan. Supporters documented this year the…
