Toshihiro Mutsuda was only 5 years old when he last saw his father, who was drafted by Japan's Imperial Army in 1943 and killed ... aboard the USS Lexington, a WWII aircraft carrier, in Corpus ...

Tsuneo Watanabe, the powerful head of Japan's largest newspaper who had close ties with the country's powerful conservative ...

And the Japanese suffered a military and a political-diplomatic defeat. Hitler invaded Poland and thus World War II began. Q: Did the Kwantung army escalate the border conflicts, ignoring Tokyo ...

After the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor, America needed a symbol of hope. The Doolittle Raid on Tokyo was that symbol.

Eighty years after US air raids devastated Japanese cities, the nation reflects on its wartime suffering but with an ...

An elaborate scheme of radio denial and deception developed by Japan blinded Washington to Tokyo’s intentions.

Tokyo chief photographer Eugene Hoshiko, correspondent Mari Yamaguchi and video journalist Ayaka McGill provided exclusive ...

A group of Japanese survivors of the World War II atomic bombings on Nagasaki and Hiroshima in 1945, is set to be awarded the ...

THE country has ratified a key defence pact with Japan, which allows them to deploy troops on each other’s soil as they boost ...

TOKYO (AP) — The partial transfer of U.S. Marines from Okinawa to Guam began on Saturday, 12 years after Japan and the United States agreed on their realignment to reduce the heavy burden of ...