The kamikaze suicide plane was a last-ditch effort to stave off defeat by a desperate Japan. But its fatal flaw doomed its ...

Museums house many fascinating artifacts—from fossilized dinosaur feces and whale earwax plugs to a tent used by George ...

In a joint letter to Donald Trump, the mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki urged him to come and "listen to the testimonies of ...

Japanese troops removed and defused an American shell believed to be from World War II from a construction site in Okinawa’s ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: During the war, the official rice staple overrode the unofficial use of barley. For the duration of the war, the navy was beriberi-free, but the ...

Japan is to freeze voluntary funding for a United Nations’ women’s rights panel over its recommendation that Japan’s male-only imperial succession rule should be revised from gender-equality perspecti ...

The next four years will be more consequential and transactional for leaders in Tokyo as the Trump administration puts ...

Within the Context, Joint Force Capabilities, At Decisive Points” — just one of the haikus written by Army officers during ...

Korematsu received the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1998. He died in 2005 at age 86 ...

The Battle of Okinawa in 1945 was one of the bloodiest of World War II. More than 200,000 people were killed during the three months of fighting, more than half of them civilians. Okinawans were ...

Born in 1908, she raised four children, ran a family textile factory during World War II, and remained an avid hiker into her 80s. By Martin Fackler Reporting from Tokyo Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese ...