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Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has expressed determination to defend rules-based, free and multilateral trade systems ...
The Japanese military has been closely monitoring the Chinese aircraft carrier in the East China Sea and the Philippine Sea.
Japan learned of an Allied invasion in the Solomon Islands and Guadalcanal and quickly dispatched Vice Admiral Gunichi Mikawa ...
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How WWII in Europe Sparked War in Asia
In this episode of Kings and Generals’ Pacific War series, we explore how the outbreak of World War II in Europe directly ...
Control of Midway island was part of the Japanese navy’s plan to dominate the Pacific. American codebreakers had other ideas.
Investment in regional projects is allowing China to expand its influence in the South Pacific at the U.S.'s expense, ...
This indication bore out one of the most significant trends of the Pacific war. Japan seems to be running out of her best fighters, the Navy “Zeros,” which must be the spearheads of her ...
The runway display of 53 Air Force and Navy planes — plus Army missiles — ranged from rescue helicopters to fighters and ...
Sorry to disappoint antisemites, but Operation Starvation is not an Israeli plan to murder millions of Palestinians; it was a ...
Returned by the US to Japan in 1968, and eventually renamed Iwo-To (Iō-Tō) in 2007, Iwo Jima (which means “sulfur island” in Japanese) was the site of one of World War II’s most important ...
The tank had been part of the Pacific War Museum's collection since 1972, when it was loaned indefinitely by the U.S. Navy. The tank is now housed at the NPO Defense Technology Museum in Japan ...