The United States was dragged unwillingly into World War II by the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. It was part of Japan’s wider plan to dominate the entire Asia ...

500 Lb. Bomb From World War 2 Explodes at Airport in Japan, Creating Massive Crater The explosion occurred on Wednesday, Oct. 2 at Miyazaki Airport, a former Imperial Japanese Navy base built in 1943 ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito, right, and Empress Masako observe a moment of silence during a memorial service for the war dead as Japan marks the 78th anniversary of Japan's World War II defeat, at ...

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.

World War II has an extensive and complicated history that many historians and scholars still debate today. It is widely believed that the war began on September 1, 1939 when Germany invaded ...

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 ...