Japan, Philippines to sign defense pact. Tokyo’s forces will be able to train in a Southeast Asian country it conquered during ... brutal Japanese occupation in World War II but is ...

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.

During World War II, ... During the siege and occupation of the Philippines, ... The Japanese attacked the Philippines on Dec. 8, 1941.

Japan and the Philippines signed a key defense pact Monday allowing the deployment of Japanese forces for joint military exercises, including live-fire drills, to the Southeast Asian nation that ...