A U.S. Army colonel’s great-grandson returned a “good luck” flag Wednesday to the family of a Japanese soldier who carried it ...

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 ...

Their ordeal continued even after August 15, 1945, when Japan surrendered unconditionally to the Allied forces, ending the second world war, the deadliest conflict in history. 5 things to know ...

As World War II neared its end, Japan found itself with much of its naval forces destroyed as the Americans reconquered Japan's newly acquired islands. One way the Japanese decided to counter the ...

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

Everyone knows the story of the first atomic bombs that were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 ...

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 ...

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 ...