Independence came last week to Burma and its 15 million people. Thousands of Burmans caroused amiably along Rangoon’s steamy, tropical waterfront. Some still recalled the day in 1885 when Burma’s last ...

To Burma, the Japs last week gave “independence.” The gift came all tied up in pretty strings and boxed “within the framework of Japan’s co-prosperity sphere”: Lieut. General Masakazu Ka-wabe, ...