Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2019 21:17:38 +0000
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO — A park in Cabiao town, Nueva Ecija province, will soon host a monument honoring the Hukbo ng Bayan Laban sa Hapon (Hukbalahap), a peasant-led army that fought the invading Japanese forces during World War II.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ccepeda| Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2019 09:40:53 +0000
A visitor to the former Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp attempted to steal a part of the historic rail tracks where prisoners were unloaded.
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2019 23:21:25 +0000
“Bahay ng mga Lola” (Grandmothers’ House), the resource center of Lila Pilipina in Quezon City, is where elderly women with harrowing experiences during World War II used to live.
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Read moreCredit to Author: lalos| Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2019 23:27:27 +0000
That the memory was harrowingly showed in the way Dy tightly gripped the microphone during the launch of the “Women and War” exhibit on Feb. 2 at Ayala Museum, where her words echoed across a room filled with mementos, books and photographs of Filipino women’s suffering and resilience during World War II.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 06:51:01 +0000
Hundreds of South Koreans mourned the death of a former sex slave for the Japanese military during World War II during in a rally in Seoul.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2019 17:46:20 +0000
The Russian city of St. Petersburg marked the 75th anniversary of the end of the World War II siege by Nazi forces with a large military parade Sunday in the city’s sprawling Palace Square.
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Credit to Author: lalos| Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 09:28:11 +0000
Japan has demanded that South Korea respond within 30 days to its request for talks over wartime forced labor of Koreans at Japanese firms’ factories.
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Credit to Author: Kathleen Malay| Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 12:56:04 +0000
A local marriage tradition in the island of Timor helped these women escape becoming comfort women during Japanese occupation.
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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2019 07:09:31 +0000
Lila-Pilipina on Tuesday slammed the Japanese government’s protest against a bronze statue of a girl in San Pedro, Laguna.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2018 03:57:44 +0000
Japan’s Emperor Akihito has marked his 85th birthday — his last before his upcoming abdication, feeling relieved.
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