NAHA--Okinawa Prefecture will preserve the remains of the Imperial Japanese Army headquarters that served as a command post beneath Shuri-jo Castle here during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa. As a ...

Douglas MacArthur's U.S. Army Forces in the Far East, or USAFFE, had held out for four months against the Imperial Japanese Army, while every other island and nation in the Pacific and Southeast ...

KOHIMA, India—Eighty years after the Imperial Japanese Army lost one of its bloodiest battles in World War II, a cenotaph was dedicated to the Japanese troops who died in the desperate campaign.

On December 22, 1941, the 14 th Japanese Imperial Army, under the command of Lieutenant General Masaharu Homma, landed at Lingayen Gulf in Northern Luzon. The 14 th Army, with approximately 43,000 ...

During World War II, the Japanese imperial authorities abducted, coerced, tricked and sometimes recruited hundreds of ...

“There’s no doubt he was a genius.” Oshima was an Imperial Japanese Army general who was assigned to Germany in 1934, the same year Adolf Hitler rose to power as a dictator, the Führer of ...

On a cloudless day off the Philippines coast, Shigetoshi Kaneko held onto floating debris while adrift, clinging to hope after esc ...