From a 92-year-old’s account of serving for Japan in WW2 to a gruelling depiction of cancer and the success of a Corkman, comics are thriving, says Don O’Mahony

The Fifth Estate (15A) is a dramatisation of the Wikileaks story, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange, the man who employed the Internet to mastermind the greatest information dump in history.

MATTHEW FOX is the archetype of the all-American leading man.

Prince Tomohito, a cousin of Japanese Emperor Akihito, has died after bouts with various ailments, the Imperial Household Agency said today. He was 66.

Matthew Fox has been offered a role in 'Emperor'.

SAY what you like about wartime British efforts to turn Hitler into a woman, but at least they recognised a problem and tried to solve it.

Japan’s new liberal prime minister shunned a visit to a shrine which has outraged Asian neighbours for honouring war criminals, breaking from past governments’ tradition and instead apologising today for the suffering World War II caused.

LIFE was wild in the Dáil as the big beasts battled with each other to stake their claim as king of the political jungle.

JAPAN’S fanatical Second World War leader Hideki Tojo wanted to keep on fighting even after atomic bombs destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, documents released show.

Japan’s fanatical Second World War leader Hideki Tojo wanted to keep on fighting even after atomic bombs destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, documents released today show.

IT should have been Brian Cowen’s big day, but as he emerged onto the steps of Government Buildings he looked for all the world like a bewildered groom jilted by the electorate he thought he knew so well.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed sympathy for victims of Japan’s war-time aggression today as the country commemorated the 62nd anniversary of its surrender in the Second World War.

“APART from that it was a good press conference,” squirmed Dick Roche as the Cabinet ran ashen-faced from the wreckage of the Fianna Fáil manifesto launch.

ASIA remembered the 60th anniversary of Japan’s Second World War surrender yesterday by honouring the dead and searching for reconciliation, while Japan’s leader tried to salve wounds by apologising for the “great damages and pain” it inflicted on its neighbours.

JAPAN’S Emperor Akihito yesterday visited a cliff where his countrymen plunged to their deaths to avoid capture by US troops.

Japan’s Emperor Akihito bowed deeply atop a Saipan cliff where his countrymen plunged to their deaths to avoid capture by US troops and – for the first time - paid his respects today to the Koreans killed on the tiny Pacific island in a key Second World War battle.

Amid recollections of horror and solemn vows of peace, Japan today commemorated the day 60 years ago when US bombers burned Tokyo to the ground in a firebombing that killed 100,000 people, nearly all of them civilians.

Prince Takamado, a cousin of Japanese Emperor Akihito and an outspoken advocate for less secrecy surrounding the royal family, died in a Tokyo hospital after collapsing on a squash court today. He was 47.

THE United States may install King Abdullah of Jordan to front a US-backed military government in Iraq, acclaimed war correspondent Robert Fisk claimed last night.

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s hold on power looked increasingly precarious today as his public support went into freefall after the sacking of his foreign minister and an emboldened opposition submitted a no-confidence motion.