An explosion occurred after a U.S. bomb from World War II detonated at an airport in Japan on Wednesday, Oct. 2 The incident happened at Miyazaki Airport, a former Imperial Japanese Navy base ...

An unexploded U.S. bomb from World War II that had been buried at a Japanese airport exploded Wednesday, causing a large crater in a taxiway and the cancellation of more than 80 flights but no ...

A World War II airman who was taken captive by Japanese forces and died in a prison fire after his plane was shot down has been accounted for, military officials said Wednesday. U.S. Army Air ...

The Izumo-class Kaga might sound familiar to World War II historians. That's because it shares a name with another aircraft carrier in the then-Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN).

TOKYO — A regional airport in southwest Japan was closed on Wednesday after a U.S. bombshell, most likely dropped during World War II to stem “kamikaze” attacks, exploded near its runway ...

When Osaka first hosted the World Expo in 1970, a quarter-century after World War II, Japan’s economy was newly affluent and expanding so rapidly it was hailed as an economic miracle.