On April 11, 1945, a Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball during the ...

Warfare can be seen as an anti-war movie in some ways, and it draws inspiration from many other psychological dramas that ...

Question: I've heard that the national government is investigating former Imperial Japanese military personnel ... A: During the war, Kohnodai Army Hospital in Chiba Prefecture specialized in ...

The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about "war trauma," which the Japanese government began ...

Off the coast of Japan 80 years ago, a naval captain ordered a burial at sea for a kamikaze pilot who died slamming his ...

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) — A Japanese pilot slammed his ... to push U.S. forces back late in the war, when it was hopelessly losing. The Imperial Navy founded the Kamikaze Tokko Tai, which ...

Hamburger Hill, Hue, the Ia Drang Valley, Khe Sanh: Some remember the Vietnam War battles from the headlines of the 1960s and 1970s, others from movies and history books. Thousands of Americans and ...

The War Remnants Museum attracts some 500,000 visitors a year, about two-thirds of whom are foreigners. Its exhibits focus on American war crimes and atrocities like ... since they’d been captured by ...

Tomesuke Umeki, an officer in the Imperial Japanese Army, carried the sword with him when he left Takaharu around 1941 for a Japanese-controlled territory during the Pacific War. He traveled from ...

World War II ended 75 years ago, but not all countries commemorate it on the same day. Wednesday is the anniversary of the formal Sept. 2, 1945, surrender of Japan to the United States, when ...

A federal judge in Maryland is expected to question members of President Donald Trump’s administration Tuesday about its ...