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 ...

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. In what they acknowledge may be one of their last hurrahs, a group ...

After emerging from cloistered isolation in 1865, following more than 200 years of violent harassment by Japan’s insular warlord rulers, many of the formerly underground Christians converted to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

L.A. Coroner: Thomas Noguchi and Death in Hollywood Anne Soon Choi. Third State, $29.95 (240p) ISBN 979-8-89013-007-5 ...

Susan Schmidt, a longtime Center for Asian Studies staff member, retired at the end of January 2025, after serving as the first Executive Director of the American Association of Teachers of Japanese ...

Army veteran Harry Miller was stationed in Germany when the Nazis surrendered. Upon hearing the news, he recalls that American troops went to sleep or shook hands. "And some just couldn't believe it." ...