Using pictures left by her grandmother, photographer Jennifer Sakai retraces the story of her ancestors, who were sent to the ...

Nearly 90 flights were canceled in Japan after an unexploded American bomb from the Second World War exploded unexpectedly on the taxiway of a regional airport. The Miyazaki Airport in southwest ...

After police and the nearby bomb squad investigated to the scene, they announced that the weapon was inactive and safe ...

The USS Enterprise (CV-6), an aircraft carrier, was the most decorated American naval vessel to fight in World War II and ...

Every August, Japanese media outlets offer specials on World War II and accounts of survivors’ wartime experiences. These features center around Aug. 15, the date when Emperor Hirohito announced ...

As Japanese forces moved closer towards Hong ... visit the memorial for the Sai Kung freedom fighters during the second world war, to remember and honour those who were killed during the long ...

A "megaquake" hitting Japan in the next 30 years could trigger 100-foot tsunamis and kill hundreds of thousands of people.

Japanese Canadians were shipped to interior B.C. aboard trains during the Second World War. Picture here, children looking out a train window on their way to internment camps. (National Archives ...

In December 1941, Imperial Japan opened the Pacific theater of World War Two with two acts of stunning ... to try to ease the situation. The second, which is what most people tend to opt for ...

Akira Yamauchi, 75, a second-generation Japanese-Brazilian ... Both believed that Japan won World War II without a doubt. “It was natural for them to believe so because they listened only ...

In Total War, eyewitnesses from Britain, Germany, Russia, Korea, Japan, and the United States tell the story of the civilians – children, sisters, brothers – who suffered and died in the Second World ...