For more than six decades, Kazuo Odachi had a secret: At the age of 17, he became a kamikaze pilot, one of thousands of young Japanese men asked to give their lives in last-ditch suicide missions ...

Tatsukuma Ueno, 97, a former Japanese army pilot, took the stage at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan in Tokyo to tell his story 80 years after the end of World War II.

The idea of Second World War kamikaze pilots as brainwashed fanatics, willingly going to their deaths, is a pervasive one. And there is an element of truth in it, because the Japanese population ...

Kamikaze attacks also emanated from Japanese bases in Taiwan and the Philippines. But it’s also fitting that Kagoshima is considered to be the last stand of Japan’s samurai warrior class.

Imperial Japan sent its first wave of kamikaze suicide planes to the U.S. Navy off the coast of the Philippines on Oct. 25, 1944. Thousands were killed in the attacks by war's end.

CLARK AIR BASE, Philippines — Cars, trucks and motorcycles buzz along a road outside this Philippine air force installation, once the domain of the U.S. Air Force and the Imperial Japanese Navy ...