For the Oscars, China has historically selected films that are able to drum up nationalistic pride, and The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru continues this trend.The film highlights how the Chinese ...

One of the most extraordinary stories from World War II, paradoxically, is one of the least known: the sinking of the Lisbon Maru. This was the scene, in the ocean waters around a remote island ...

The truth about the sunken Lisbon Maru needs to be known by the whole world, said renowned Chinese filmmaker Fang Li, who directed and produced the documentary.

In 2016, Maru Hospitality opened Maru Sushi Detroit, its fifth location at the time for the Okemos-based chain. Other Michigan locations are Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, East Lansing and Midland.

Briton Dennis Morley, who was on board the Lisbon Maru prison ship when it was torpedoed en route from Hong Kong to Japan by a US submarine, killing hundreds, died in January aged 101.