Takamatsu Gushiken hunts caves in Okinawa's jungles for the bones of those who died in the WWII Battle of Okinawa, one of the ...

After suffering more than 220,000 casualties, the Empire of Japan announced its surrender, leading to the end of World War II. The US forces quickly moved in to launch Operation Blacklist ...

Nearly 80 years after the end of World War II, 1.2 million Japanese war dead are still unaccounted for. That's about half of the 2.4 million Japanese, mostly soldiers, who died during Japan's ...

It also thrust an ambivalent nation into World War II. Stories abound of young men joining up after Pearl Harbor ... Roosevelt's declaration of war on Japan on December 8 may have braced many ...

Mina Watanabe has made it her life’s work to tell the stories of the women who were sexually enslaved by the Japanese ...

A World War II era bomb that lay buried ... been recovered from the site. Even after 79 years of the end of the war, discovery of unexploded bombs across Japan is not uncommon.

Set to detonate about an hour to a week after impact, a bomb dropped in the later stages of World War II didn't explode for ... cases previously confirmed in Japan also involved bombs fitted ...

A World War II bomb exploded from beneath an airport in Japan on Wednesday, canceling over 80 flights. The blast left a large ...

Japan is remembering the 105,000 people killed in a single night, 80 years ago Monday, in the U.S. firebombing of the ...

In the aftermath of Japan ... After the war, it operated off China and Korea before decommissioning in 1946. The USS O’Bannon (DD-450), a destroyer, played a vital role in World War II as ...

Tokyo - Japan’s Emperor Naruhito renewed his wish for world peace on his birthday, marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, the Imperial Household Agency (IHA) said on Feb 23.