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In this photo provided by the Imperial Household Agency of Japan, Japanese Prince Hisahito speaks at his first press conference on Monday, March 3, 2025, at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo.
Credit: AP Okinawa was sacrificed by Japan’s Imperial Army to defend the mainland, historians say. The island group remained under U.S. occupation until its reversion in 1972, two decades longer than ...
Trekking through mud and rocks in Japan's humid Okinawan jungle, Takamatsu Gushiken reached a slope of ground where human ...
Japan's Emperor Naruhito has announced plans to honor Japanese World War II prisoners during his visit to Mongolia next week.
The Ki-27 was a single-seater, highly maneuverable, fixed-gear airplane, but it was no match for the Flying Tigers. When one thinks of Imperial Japan’s World War II fighter planes, the ...
THE shrinking number of Japan’s imperial family members is a grave problem for the country. As things stand, only three members are eligible to ascend to the Chrysanthemum Throne, and unease ...
Battle of Okinawa, volunteers like Takamatsu Gushiken are still recovering WWII remains from jungle, These remains have the right to be returned to their families," said Gushiken.
Fortnight ago a strangely ineffective bomb thrown in his direction left His Imperial Majesty, Emperor Hirohito, son of Heaven, untouched (TIME, Jan. 18). But it inflicted slight flesh wounds on the ...
Although Spy x Family is most well-known for its adorable slice-of-life family antics, the core of the plot is Loid Forger's ...
Japan's Justice Ministry says a man convicted of murder for killing and dismembering nine people in his apartment near Tokyo ...
As defeat loomed, Japan turned to Nazi Germany for help—and requested one of their most feared weapons: the Tiger Tank. This is the bizarre story of the tank that never saw battle.
An unprecedented exhibition of paintings and works of calligraphy representing the taste and patronage of Japanese emperors from the 9th to the 20th century is currently on exclusive display at ...