In October 1945, two months after the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and one ...
The USS Esdall, a 314-foot destroyer sunk by Japanese forces in 1942, was known as "the dancing mouse" for its ability to ...
Walker is a U.S. Navy Veteran who served in World War II as a 40 MM Gunner aboard the USS Idaho. He told the Press-Citizen ...
U.S. Army Air Forces Pvt. 1st Class Bernard J. Calvi, 23, died in a prisoner of war camp in the Philippines during World War ...
The discovery, announced Monday, has revealed the resting place of more than 200 servicemen who died three months after the ...
“Shirauo” icefish that were thought to have died out in the capital more than 50 years ago are in fact thriving in the mouth of the Tamagawa river that flows into Tokyo Bay, experts sai ...
What You Need to Know: The USS Wisconsin (BB-65), one of the formidable Iowa-class battleships, faced not just the enemy ...
A former POW camp in the Philippines which was the site of a massacre of U.S. troops has fallen into disrepair.
If you're looking to learn a little (or a lot) about Japan's history, the Tokyo National Museum is ... of previous edifices (during World War II, nearly the entire temple was razed).