The USS New Orleans was struck by a Japanese “Long Lance” torpedo during the November 1942 Battle of Tassafaronga, off the coast of Guadalcanal. The powerful explosion sheared off nearly a third of ...

Located in the Solomon Islands near Guadalcanal, Iron Bottom Sound experienced five major naval battles between August and ...

The creative force behind the 'Gundam' robot anime franchise, 83-year-old Tomino Yoshiyuki, speaks to NHK for the 80th ...

Eighty years after World War II, some of Japan's last survivors are still pushing for an apology and recognition. But time is ...

An expedition led by Ocean Exploration Trust (OET) aboard Exploration Vessel (E/V) Nautilus has just completed comprehensive ...

Over 70 percent of foreigners visiting the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum feel that the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings of the western Japan city and Nagasaki cannot be justified, a recent Kyodo News ...

The Japanese on Guam were shaken by the loss of Saipan on July 9 and the Imperial Japanese Navy’s loss in the Battle of the Philippine Sea, June 19-20. So was the leadership of Japan.

In the morning of Dec. 8, 1941, while many CHamorus were still in churches celebrating Guam’s patron saint, Santa Marian Kamalen, the Japanese started bombing Guam.

In early 1945, the U.S. launched an aerial offensive on the Japanese naval base at Kure, targeting the battleship Haruna. Defending the base were elite Japanese fighter instructors piloting Kawanishi ...

The Battle of Wake Island is often referred to as the loneliest battle of World War II. On December 8, 1941, the attack on ...

CHAPTER 11 The wheels of the vehicles of war with which Nazism [was] halted came from the latex of rubber trees collected on ...