Glenn Hodak, a corporal in the U.S. Army Air Forces, has been accounted for nearly 80 years after he died in a fire at the Tokyo Military Prison in 1945. Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency An American ...

IWO-TO, Japan (AP) — Japan’s Emperor Naruhito visited Iwo Jima on Monday and paid tribute to thousands of Japanese and Americans who died in one of World War II's bloodiest battles. Naruhito and his ...

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TOKYO — A former Japanese army pilot who helped train the infamous kamikaze — flyers who deliberately crashed into their targets — is still telling his story 80 years after the end of World War II, in ...

One of the biggest achievements of maritime archaeology is discovering shipwreck remnants from crucial historic periods. A team of scientists aboard the Ocean Exploration Trust’s Exploration Vessel (E ...

Eighty years later, the scars of the last American firebombing of a Japanese city remain — on the skin of a man who still lives mere yards from where hundreds died, on the surface of a statue of a ...

THAT HISTORY IS STILL IMPORTANT TODAY. ERIKO. IT MEANS A RECORD OF NAMES IN JAPANESE. IT’S BEING RECOGNIZED AS A LESSONS LEARNED IN OUR HISTORY. JEFF KAWAGUCHI’S PARENTS ARE TWO OF THE NAMES IN A SEA ...

Wakako Kondoh Burk at bride school in Yokosuka, Japan in 1957. The American Red Cross created “Bride Schools” to teach Japanese women how to be an “American” wife and mother. (Photo courtesy of ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito visited Iwo Jima on Monday and paid tribute to thousands of Japanese and Americans who died in one of World War II's bloodiest battles. Japan's Emperor Naruhito visited Iwo ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito visited Iwo Jima on Monday and paid tribute to thousands of Japanese and Americans who died in one of World War II’s bloodiest battles. Naruhito and his wife, Empress Masako, ...