With his ancestors’ 700-year-old samurai sword buckled at the side of his faded, patched uniform, fierce, bullet-headed General Tomoyuki Yamashita came trudging out of northern Luzon’s ...

When Yamashita’s triumphant army reached Singapore, its soldiers deliberately sought out and killed as many as 40,000 Chinese civilians in what has become known as the notorious “Sook Ching ...