History

Part 24 of "That War and Me": Lt. Gen. Masaharu Homma, who took Luzon as 14th Army commander, the Bataan Death March, his wife Fujiko’s testimony at the Manila tribunal, and his composed end.

Part 23 of "That War and Me": how singer Hamako Watanabe, carrying "Ah, the Night Deepens in Muntinlupa," worked for the release of Japanese war criminals held in the Philippines, and the devotion of chaplain Kagao Shunin.

Part 22 of "That War and Me": the Shikishima Unit led by Lt. Seki Yukio that sortied from Mabalacat, the Special Attack Corps monument, Tomiya Shokudo and Torihama Tome at Chiran, and how the dead are remembered.

Part 21 of "That War and Me": the two anti-Japanese organizations born under Japanese occupation of the Philippines — Ramon Magsaysay’s intelligence network and the communist-led Hukbalahap guerrillas — and what became of them after the war.

Part 19 of "That War and Me": Osawa Kiyoshi’s wartime injury and captivity, his postwar work uniting Japanese residents of Manila, and his role in building the Japanese cemetery at Muntinlupa.

Part 18 of "That War and Me": the life of Osawa Kiyoshi, who became a leader of the prewar Japanese community in the Philippines, and his role in the founding of the Japanese-era Republic of the Philippines.

Part 17 of "That War and Me": General Tomoyuki Yamashita, the "Tiger of Malaya" who took Singapore, his command of the defense of the Philippines, and his postwar military tribunal and execution.

Part 16 of "That War and Me": the sacrifice of naval officers and civilian seamen, graduates of the Tokyo and Kobe Higher Merchant Marine Schools, the war-dead seamen’s memorial, and the fate of the schools after the war.

Part 15 of "That War and Me": the Taiwanese police corps led by Inspector Hiroeda Otouemon during the Battle of Manila, his sacrifice to save his men, and the postwar bond between Japan and Taiwan.