The Philippine Navy confirmed yesterday exploratory discussions with Japan on the possible transfer of Abukuma-class ...

WORLD WAR 2 HEROES – Meet Captain Jose Cabalfin Calugas, who served with honor and bravery during the war.

A woman with leprosy named Josefina Guerrero had helped soldiers in significant ways during the war, and here's how she did ...

Although the Philippines declared independence in 1898, it wasn't until 1946, after American rule and Japanese occupation during World War II — that the country became fully recognised as an ...

70 years of diplomacy The two countries are set to mark 70 years of diplomatic ties in 2026. Formal diplomatic relations between the Philippines and Japan were restored with the signing of the ...

During the siege and occupation of the Philippines, Army Nurses showed their grit and courage. Some 60 nurses ended up as POWs.

THE origins of American expansion towards the Far East go back to the infancy of the Republic, for Americans were entering the China trade by the last decades of the eighteenth century. By 1800 this ...

During Ferdinand Marcos’s presidency-turned-regime from 1965 to 1986, 3,257 people are known to have been extrajudicially killed.

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. — Eighty years ago, on Jan. 9, 1945, I Corps landed on the beaches of northern Luzon at Lingayen Gulf, playing a pivotal role in defeating the Imperial Japanese ...

Survivors of the 1945 Battle of Manila recount in ‘Children of the War’ how they escaped ‘mass executions’ during the Japanese occupation.

Philippine Information Agency (PIA)SAN JOSE, Occidental Mindoro (PIA) — The municipality of San Jose celebrates the 80th anniversary of the Liberation Day of Mindoro Island from the Japanese ...

The Japanese occupation of the Philippines remains yet a living memory in the country. The oldest still remember a childhood under the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.