German soldiers never stepped foot on the speck of land at the far end of the Aleutian Islands during World War II, but the ...

A famed Japanese destroyer lost in 1942 has been found severed on the South Pacific seafloor — the result of a fantastic David-vs.-Goliath sea battle that remains the stuff of legend for the U.S. Navy ...

Environment Pacific nations urge Japan to clean up WWII shipwrecks Oil leaks put coral reefs, mangroves and fisheries at risk, researcher warns ...

Japan's Emperor Akihito has paid tribute to the victims of fierce fighting on the Pacific island of Saipan during World War II. The emperor bowed at memorials to the Japanese, US and Korean dead, in ...

Tatsukuma Ueno, 97, a former Japanese army pilot, took the stage at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan in Tokyo to tell his story 80 years after the end of World War II.

Human remains discovered on Okinawa in 2004 have been identified as those of a Japanese soldier, marking the first time DNA alone was used to confirm the identity of a casualty from the Battle of ...

US, Japan left behind thousands of bombs after WWII. They're still exploding and killing people in the Pacific.

Before Pearl Harbor and World War II, Japan was already on a dangerous path. This documentary explores how ultranationalism took root during the Taishō and early Shōwa eras, fueled by economic ...

A Japanese ex-soldier who disappeared after World War II and was officially declared dead in 2000 has turned up alive in Ukraine. Ishinosuke Uwano was serving with the Japanese Imperial Army in Russia ...

The remains of some 1,400 people sit in storage for possible identification with DNA testing. So far just six have been identified and returned to their families.

Hundreds of ships and thousands of troops relied on Ulithi Atoll to support the Allied advance all the way to Japan's shores.

The USS Stewart, once called the "Ghost Ship of the Pacific," served in both the U.S. and Japanese navies during World War II.