During World War II, a series of cellars in Germany was destroyed. From the wreckage, archaeologists unearthed a rare ...

The sword was found in the cellar of a Berlin home destroyed during WWII. General view of the wakizashi ... revealed the object to be a type of Japanese short sword—known as a wakizashi ...

But thanks to the strenuous efforts of his grandson, the promise was kept, and a Japanese sword in the U.S. veteran’s possession was returned to the family of a former enemy combatant after a ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a rare richly-decorated 17th century Japanese sword of unknown origin in the ruins of a Berlin cellar, destroyed during the Second World War. The discovery is ...

Among the wreckage of a cellar in the city’s oldest square, destroyed during World War II, researchers recently uncovered a rare, finely decorated Japanese sword. The weapon could be up to 500 ...

Together, these storms are known as kamikaze ("wind of the gods"), a term that would take on a more sinister definition during World War II when Japanese pilots carried out suicide attacks.

SETOUCHI, Okayama Prefecture--Craftspeople here restoring a Japanese sword for Aung San Suu Kyi ... of the Burma (Myanmar) area during World War II. It subsequently changed hands to Gen.

A “richly decorated” weapon from Edo-era Japan was discovered in Germany amidst a pile of rubble within a cellar damaged during World War II, according ... uncovered the sword during an ...

She was captured and imprisoned and a picture of her taken by a Japanese photographer shortly ... forces in World War Two and always brought a sword and a poison bottle to defend herself.

Restoration work on a metal artifact found in Berlin, Germany, has revealed it to be an "ornately decorated" Japanese ...

A “richly decorated” weapon from Edo-era Japan was discovered in Germany amidst a pile of rubble within a cellar damaged during World War II, according to a statement ... Archaeologists uncovered the ...