Nicknamed the “Tokyo Express” by their opponents, the Japanese “tin cans” acquired the grudging respect of the Americans for ...

A World War II airman who was taken captive by Japanese forces and died in a prison fire after his plane was shot down has ...

Curtis LeMay, head of the Strategic Air Command during the Korean War Pre-4th Geneva Convention. Which came to bear partially because of what happened to the Japanese civilian population in WW2, ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako will visit Iwoto Island for the first time in April to pay respects to the ...

Tokyo on Monday marked the 80th anniversary of a U.S. air raid during World War II that killed around 100,000 people amid concern ove ...

COURTESY OF NISHITOKYO CITYThousands of swords and other weapons were discovered underneath an elementary school on the ...

More than 100,000 people were killed in a single night 80 years ago on Monday in the US firebombing of the Japanese capital of Tokyo. The attack, made with conventional bombs, destroyed downtown ...

Five months before the United States dropped atomic weapons on Japan's Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the nighttime raid on March ...

The Tokyo residence of wartime Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe is now open to the public after extensive renovations to restore the building to its original grandeur. The state-designated historic ...

who survived the raid as she had left Tokyo a few hours before. "We should never repeat the war," said Sato, who also lost her siblings in World War II. An 88-year-old woman who lost her father ...

17 to a Shinto shrine in Tokyo that Chinese and Koreans view as ... The date marks the anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II. Given the politically charged date, Kishida made the ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba plans to seek expert opinions to examine lessons learned from World War II but is not expected to deliver a cabinet-approved statement to mark the 80th anniversary of the ...