OME, Japan — A California man recently climbed a forested mountainside in western Tokyo to honor the memory of his great-grandfather, one of five American airmen killed when their B-29 ...

Japan to Review WWII after Summer Upper House Election. News from Japan. Politics Jun 6, 2025 20:40 (JST) English; ...

The government will hold expert panel discussions on World War II after this summer's Upper House election, government sources have said. Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's administration was ...

The A6M Zero was once the most feared fighter in the Pacific - light, fast, and deadly. This Kings and Generals documentary traces its stunning rise and eventual downfall during WWII. As Allied ...

Japanese American veteran built bridges between cultures after WWII May 26, 2025 6:30 PM EDT. By ... Japan, his father a handyman and his mother a Japanese teacher.

Japan's Emperor Naruhito and his family have prayed for all the war dead in one of the bloodiest battles of World War II fought on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa 80 years ago.

Sword seized after WWII may return to Japan after 50+ years . By Carolyn Carver The Arizona Republic Apr 21, 2007 Apr 21, 2007 ...

The D-Day generation, smaller in number than ever, is back on the beaches of France where so much blood was spilled 81 years ago. World War II veterans, now mostly centenarians, have returned with ...

Mihm: After the war, the United States government, the military, sent groups of mortuary units basically to come and reclaim anyone who had died and to find people who went missing. And it was at ...

Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and their daughter, Princess Aiko, visited Okinawa Prefecture on June 4 ahead of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II.

IKITSUKI, Japan (AP) ... Those ties crumbled as the country modernized after WWII, with recent developments revolutionizing people’s lives, even in rural Japan.

Developed by Konami and released in 2000, the game is set in a world where, after World War II, the Soviet Union and America occupy a split Japan, mirroring the real-life partition of Germany in 1949.