Japan’s plan to bring back WWII military titles sparks debate - Ruling coalition says move aligns SDF with ‘international standards’, but critics warn it risks regional tensions ...
In 1943, Japanese pilots dismissed a new American fighter as slow, heavy, and inferior. That aircraft was the F6F Hellcat, ...
In the middle of World War II, the United States faced a brutal problem in the Pacific: how to defeat Japan’s strongest island fortresses without sacrificing tens of thousands of lives. This story ...
Police said Wednesday that a set of bones recovered at a wartime mine in Japan are human remains, and a Japanese group helping search for the remains said they are certain to belong to about 180 ...
Eight decades since the end of the Second World War, the US-Japan alliance continues to evolve beyond its Cold War foundations. On September 2, 1945, on the deck of USS Missouri, Imperial Japan ...
World War II veterans Lester Schrenik, left, and Joe Etheredge, both standing, acknowledged the crowd attending a ceremony on the pier next to the USS Missouri on Tuesday to mark the 80th anniversary ...
Driven by lessons from World War II and China’s expanding presence, Japan’s strategic orientation is pivoting eastward into the Pacific.