In the early days of World War II, the Japanese army invaded Burma (now Myanmar) and forced an end to British colonial rule there. Occupying Burma required troops and massive amounts of materiel ...

A Japanese citizen wanted in his home country for cyber fraud is in custody in Karen State’s Myawaddy Township, the Karen ...

On March 21, during a session of the Japanese Diet on foreign affairs, Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya expressed “serious ...

Bert, of Bitterne, was a prisoner-of-war for three and a half years during the Second World War — spending 18 months ...

Track the progress of the Burma Campaign - from the rapid Japanese victories of 1941, to the desperate battles for the Indian towns of Kohima and Imphal. Then follow the course of the Allies as ...

Colonel Charles Mercer, who has died aged 105, took part in Operation Thursday, the codename of the second Chindit deep-penetration expedition into enemy-occupied Burma. In 1943 Mercer, then a ...

Was it in Myanmar, as the country is officially called? Or was it in Burma, the name Washington continues to use? The answer is complicated. Because when it comes to Myanmar, pretty much ...

Mountaineer Joe Simpson travels to Myanmar to retrace the steps of his father, who fought behind Japanese lines in WWII, facing conditions which made this one of the toughest campaigns of the war.

The most ghastly example was the Battle of Imphal. Japanese troops attempted to seize Imphal in India by advancing from Burma (now Myanmar). The campaign required Japanese troops to cross a large ...