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 been accounted for, military officials said Wednesday.

The first Japanese aircraft carrier since World War II Representatives of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force reported that the F-35B's initial contact with the JS Kaga's flight deck was successful.

Paragraph 1 of Japan’s post-WWII Constitution, which declared that “the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as a means of ...

Nicknamed the “Tokyo Express” by their opponents, the Japanese “tin cans” acquired the grudging respect of the Americans for their daring and ingenuity, their deadly 24-inch Type 93 “Long Lance” ...