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

Operation Barney was conceptualized by Vice Admiral Lockwood to avenge the loss of Wahoo and her intrepid crew.

Over 80,000 Marines, soldiers, and sailors from our two countries fought at Iwo Jima. More than 26,000 died here. Today, we ...

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 ...

Japan’s navy is considered the most formidable of ... a memorial to Japanese soldiers killed in World War II including several convicted "class A" war criminals (Koizumi has been criticized ...

USA, Oita Prefecture--The last moments of Japan’s mammoth battleship Yamato were captured in extremely rare color footage taken from U.S. military aircraft in World War II, a war-history group said.

Mina Watanabe has made it her life’s work to tell the stories of the women who were sexually enslaved by the Japanese military before and during World War II. By Vivian Morelli Reporting from ...