Reportage

Part 35 of Takeshi Asanuma’s Philippine Column: Nielson Field, the 1937 airport whose two runways became today’s Ayala Avenue and Paseo de Roxas in Makati, from PAL’s first flight through the war to the Nielson Tower.

Part 34 of Takeshi Asanuma’s Philippine Column: how Manila, the “Pearl of the Orient,” grew into a beautiful capital under Spanish and American rule, until its destruction in the Battle of Manila in February 1945.

Part 33 of Takeshi Asanuma’s Philippine Column: 1940s Manila, the “Pearl of the Orient,” its Intramuros, neoclassical government quarter and lively streets, and its devastation in the Battle of Manila in 1945.

Part 32 of Takeshi Asanuma’s Philippine Column: running a small resort hotel on Boracay’s White Sand Beach since 2003, its two seasons and famous sunsets, and how its visitors have changed over the years.

Part 31 of Takeshi Asanuma’s Philippine Column: why Vigan, birthplace of President Quirino and a UNESCO World Heritage city, escaped destruction in the Japan–U.S. war — two Japanese officers, including Captain Takahashi Tojiro, and the film “Iliw.”

Part 25 of "That War and Me": how the Japanese and American forces fought differently, the destruction of old Manila, and the negotiated release of the Santo Tomas internment camp and withdrawal of its Japanese guards.

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.