On Dec. 23, 1948, former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and six other Japanese war leaders were hanged in Tokyo under sentence of ...

On the eve of World War II, Japan secretly purchased an advanced American airliner: the Douglas DC-4E. Officially sold as a ...

At the start of the war, Japan’s Zero fighter shocked the world. It could outmaneuver and outfight almost anything in the sky ...

TOKYO (AP) — For years, orphans in Japan were punished just for surviving the war. They were bullied. They were called trash and left to fend for themselves on the street. Police rounded them up and ...

Takamatsu Gushiken turns on a headlamp and enters a cave buried in Okinawa's jungle. He gently runs his fingers through the gravel until two pieces of bone emerge. These are from the skulls, he says, ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: An amphibious assault against an island defended even by a small number of well-armed defenders with long-range weapons is difficult, which is one reason why the U.S.

The shrine honors 14 convicted Class-A Japanese war criminals from World War II, including Hideki Tojo. It is known that about 20,000 Koreans who were forced into the war and died are also enshrined ...

While diplomatic tensions between the two countries are not new, both have little to gain from the current dispute subsiding.

Japan is threatening China militarily which is "completely unacceptable", Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his German counterpart, after Japan said that Chinese fighter jets had aimed their radar ...

TOKYO (AP) — For years, orphans in Japan were punished just for surviving the war. They were bullied. They were called trash and left to fend for themselves on the street. Police rounded them up and ...