The kamikaze program, employed by Japan’s military in the final stages of World War II, was a radical tactic in which young pilots flew explosive-laden aircraft into Allied ships, sacrificing ...

Japan built the Nakajima Ki-115 Tsurugi for kamikaze attacks with cheap materials and massive bombs. The Tsurugi was intended to be a single-use disposable aircraft and was unarmed, easy target.

Japan’s Kyushu island is home to two moving museums that detail the final thoughts of the young WWII pilots tasked with flying their bomb-laden planes into US warships.

Kamikaze sank their first ship on Oct. 25, 1944, when a navy Zero pilot smashed into the USS St. Lo in the Philippine Sea while carrying a pair of 550-pound (250-kilogram) bombs.

Kamikaze sank their first ship on Oct. 25, 1944, when a navy Zero pilot smashed into the USS St. Lo in the Philippine Sea while carrying a pair of 550-pound bombs.

This is the dramatic moment a WWII bomb exploded next to the runway forcing flight cancellations at an airport in Japan on this morning. The ordnance is believed to have been dropped by the Allies ...

A shipwreck discovered four years ago in the Sulu Sea off the coast of the Philippines has been identified as a U.S. aircraft carrier sunk by a Japanese Kamikaze plane in 1945, the Navy announced.

A U.S. Navy destroyer sunk in 1945 by a kamikaze aircraft during the Battle of Okinawa in World War II has been discovered by a group of civilian underwater explorers deep in the Pacific Ocean ...