The shipwreck of the USS Yorktown was located around 1,000 miles northwest of Honolulu in May 1988 through a joint operation ...

A mysterious car has been found on a sunken WWII battleship, which was sunk by Japanese forces during the Battle of Midway ...

A Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball on April 11, 1945, during the Battle of Okinawa. The suicide attack instantly killed the pilot, but ...

Off the coast of Japan 80 years ago, a naval captain ordered a burial at sea for a kamikaze pilot who died slamming his ...

Hiroshima City resident Reiji Fujimoto, 93, recalled the evening in 1945 when his father Yasaku, a crewman on the Battleship Yamato, asked him that question. It was during the last dinner they had ...

It happened in the Philippines (then an American colony) during the early days of World War II, when the Japanese invaded the islands after attacking Pearl Harbor. Wainwright became the top United ...

Designers of the Yamato intended for this monster battleship to defeat ... to that which the Japanese found themselves in over 80 years ago, at the start of WWII. Unable to mass produce warships ...

Explore the abandoned Hashima Island, Japan—also known as Battleship Island—through stunning drone footage. Once a thriving coal mining hub, this eerie ghost town now stands frozen in time ...

A memorial service marking the 80th anniversary of the sinking of the now-defunct Imperial Japanese Navy's battleship Yamato ... the U.S. military during World War II and laid flowers at the ...

IWO JIMA, Japan — Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako on Monday made a rare visit to the tiny Pacific island of Iwo Jima to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. The Japanese ...

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Shimojima recounted how during World War II, the U.S. forcibly relocated and incarcerated about 120,000 people of Japanese descent ... mostly in the western interior of the country.