Even 75 years later, Yoneko Uehara can still hear her classmate disobeying an official's order to kill herself while facing enemy forces near the end of World War II. The student, whom she ...

Takano, 56, manually raised the crossing circuit barrier, stepped onto the tracks on the Tobu Tojo Line in Tokyo’s Itabashi Ward, and was struck by a train. His death was initially believed to ...

The Battle of Okinawa in 1945 was one of the bloodiest of World War II. More than 200,000 people were killed during the three months of fighting, more than half of them civilians. Okinawans were ...

Peleliu: Guernica of Paradise is the latest anime film to tie in Japan's intense history with WWII thanks to Toei in this latest trailer.

The shocking photos show the prisoners of war reduced to skin and bone after being starved and brutally beaten by their captors until they were freed following the fall of Japan in 1945.

Risch said an employee at the museum was going through items when they discovered a WWII Japanese grenade. Risch said the grenade has been at the museum for a long time, but museum officials ...

At the end of World War II, the Japanese Unit 731 planned a biological attack on the USA. Tokyo had the technological ...

TOKYO, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya said on Sunday he planned to attend Donald Trump's inauguration as U.S. president on Jan. 20, as Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's ...

SEOUL, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Foreign ministers from South Korea and Japan met in Seoul on Monday to discuss strengthening their relations in the face of increasing security challenges in the region ...

What was the World War II experience of James Alfred (“Alf”) Wight, author and the real James Herriot? MASTERPIECE got the fascinating facts and sometimes surprising timeline from All ...

The full Israeli cabinet passed the agreement during a meeting that continued into the Jewish Sabbath, setting up the first reprieve in Gaza in over a year. By Aaron BoxermanRawan Sheikh ...