Tuesday, December 16, 2025
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Tag: Japanese occupation

Reviewing ‘Pulang Araw’

“It’s slow, badly scripted, and poorly researched.” I seldom make comments about a movie or a show, Hollywood or local. I make an exception after...

Victory Day revisited

Kiangan, Ifugao, in collaboration with the Philippine Veterans Affairs Office and the Veterans Federation of the Philippines, commemorates Victory Day marking the unconditional surrender...

The liberation of Manila

"We as a people seem to have forgotten those three years of Japanese occupation."   Not too many people realize it but later this month, Manila...

Pinili turns its centennial page

Pinili, Ilocos Norte, where warriors walked during the Philippine-American War at the turn of the 20th century and during the Japanese occupation in the 1940s,...

Four years at the old Ateneo

"These made me what I am today."   I had wanted to end my recollections of World War II, which for me began with the Japanese...

Liberation days

"Here’s more of my memories."   This is the continuation of my memories of World War II, the Japanese Occupation, the guerilla days in Northern Luzon...

Parade

Mandaluyong Mayor Menchie Abalos and husband Benhur Abalos lead the parade commemorating the 74th year of the country’s liberation from Japanese Occupation as part...

Komedia, focus of many town fiestas in northern Philippines, on the wane

PINILI, Ilocos Norte—Komedia, for scores the high point of many town fiestas in Northern Philippines, has lost its sound and colors with the last...

PNoy’s Marcosian judicial politics

ALTHOUGH there is no constitutional or statutory provision mandating it, the historical tradition in the Philippines is that the most senior associate justice of...

US vet’s ashes cast in famed Leyte Gulf

When retired United States soldier Charles Goldberg was still alive, his wish upon his death was to have his body cremated and his ashes...
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