More than 14 U.S. Army and Marine divisions never landed on X-Day of Operation Downfall, the planned invasion of Japan to end ...

A Japanese soldier who hid in the Philippine jungle for three decades, refusing to believe World War II was over until his former commander returned and ordered him to surrender, has died in Tokyo ...

Former Japanese Imperial Army soldier Hiroo Onoda has died at the age of 91 — roughly 40 years after he stopped fighting World War II. Onoda, the last Japanese soldier to surrender, hid out in the ...

The community of Hood River, in partnership with the Oregon Travel Information Council, unveiled a new historical marker on ...

A flag carried by a Japanese soldier killed in action during World War II was handed over today by the USS Lexington Museum in Texas to a nonprofit organization for return to the man’s family. Known ...

Most of us learned in history class about the critical World War II chapters in the fight against Japan: Pearl Harbor, Midway, Iwo Jima. But who among us learned about Attu, site of the only ground ...

China has issued a veiled military threat to Japan, warning that any attempt by Tokyo to interfere in the Taiwan issue would ...

After being detained with thousands of other Japanese Americans during World War II, he spent decades campaigning for equal ...

The delicate flag was recently spread on a kitchen counter in the Santa Rosa Valley, east of Camarillo, as three friends pondered its origins. Messages in Japanese were written on the silk around the ...

China is deeply concerned over Japan's recent military and security moves, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian ...

A Japanese soldier who hid in the Philippine jungle for three decades, refusing to believe World War II was over until his former commander returned and ordered him to surrender, has died in Tokyo ...