It’s hard to imagine an environment more different from the wet, green Japanese islands where the art of fermenting rice into sake has been perfected over 2,400 years. Did Sakurai choose ...

During World War II, a Japanese pilot crashed into the USS Missouri. The ship's captain, William Callaghan, ordered a military burial for the pilot. This act of compassion is remembered today.

U.S. Marines perform a rifle salute on board the Battleship Missouri Memorial during a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the 1945 kamikaze attack on the USS Missouri and subsequent burial ...

MIYAKO, Fukuoka -- The Fukuoka Regional Taxation Bureau hosted a sake brewery tour for about 20 foreign residents to learn about Japan's traditional sake brewing, which is registered as a UNESCO ...

A tourist in Mexico is facing charges after he climbed stairs of one of the New Seven Wonders of the World before furious locals took justice into their own hands by beating the man. Bystander ...

On Friday, three of the captain's grandsons will mark the anniversary of the attack and burial with the mayors of Honolulu and the Japanese city of Minamikyushu, from which many kamikaze pilots ...

Loitering munitions—often called “kamikaze drones”—are fundamentally changing modern combat. These weapons, which hover over targets before striking with pinpoint accuracy, have combined the ...

Richard Yarr introduces listeners' requests for their favourite sacred music ...