As defeat loomed, Japan turned to Germany for one last weapon—a Tiger tank. What happened to it remains one of WW2’s ...

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August marks 80 years since WW2's end. NHK will run a special feature on Hiroshima & Nagasaki, with programs about war and ...

Journalist Caroline Alexander uncovers the stories of those who flew ‘the Hump’ – a little-known Allied supply mission that ...

Almost 90 US B-29 bombers dropped about 6,000 tons of napalm on Kumagaya, Japan, on the night of August 14-15, 1945. Eighty years later, the scars of that American firebombing remain.

The Battle of Okinawa was the bloodiest fight in the Pacific theater in World War II, with tens of thousands killed across ...

A REMOTE paradise island, littered with abandoned World War II wrecks, has become a popular destination for dark tourists.

A Legacy Takes Shape From 1945 to 1957, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Japan evolved from a combat support unit into something more: a driving force for peace, recovery, and transformation.

Ending the War in the Pacific D.M. Giangreco’s 2009 book, Hell to Pay: Operation DOWNFALL and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947, set the gold standard for research on the end of World War II in the ...

The South Korean ceremony took place near Japan's Sado mines, where an estimated 1,500 Korean laborers were forced to work during WW2.

Japan is facing its most severe security environment since World War II as three potential adversaries in East Asia – China, ...

On Aug. 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima — becoming the only country to ever use nuclear weapons during wartime.