Military collectibles from World War II have surpassed their status as mere artifacts and become tangible snippets of history ...

Control of Midway island was part of the Japanese navy’s plan to dominate the Pacific. American codebreakers had other ideas.

After three crewmen were swallowed up by the Pacific at the end of World War II, a modern-day rescue effort went to find them ...

The literal, physical fight to protect American bombers against the ravages of Nazi German Luftwaffe fighter planes, which ...

Anyone who kept a diary risked being be jailed. But now, at the age of 99½, ex-Royal Marine Tom Hill has finally decided to reveal his secret ...

Japan’s Sōryū-class diesel-electric attack submarines, commissioned from 2009, form the current backbone of the JMSDF’s ...

A U.S. Navy officer could face a court-martial on a charge of second-degree murder in the death of his wife at a Japanese hotel last year, the service said Thursday. Lt. Cmdr. Christopher Olsen ...

as “Reppu” (Strong Wind/Gale), after a World War II Imperial Japanese Navy fighter. A Kyodo exclusive story, relying on “interviews with multiple government officials,” said the ...

A U.S. Navy officer has been charged with killing his wife, six months after she was found strangled to death inside a hotel room in Japan. Monroe, NY-native Jessica “Jesse” Arguinzoni Olsen ...

Tyler Smith, a recreation planner from San Francisco, recently climbed a forested mountainside in western Tokyo to honor the ...

On this Memorial Day, we turn to the life and legacy of Yukio Kawamoto. The Japanese-American World War II veteran served his country under almost unthinkable circumstances and then spent a lifetime ...

Looking back through history, it’s often difficult to see passed events that have so shaped our modern world. The story of Japan in World War II for example has often left those in the west with an ...