After three crewmen were swallowed up by the Pacific at the end of World War II, a modern-day rescue effort went to find them ...

A person walks past the One-Pillar Torii Gate at Sannō Shrine, the only gate remaining of four gates after the 1945 atomic ...

Tyler Smith, a recreation planner from San Francisco, recently climbed a forested mountainside in western Tokyo to honor the ...

On this Memorial Day, we turn to the life and legacy of Yukio Kawamoto. The Japanese-American World War II veteran served his country under almost unthinkable circumstances and then spent a lifetime ...

Over a million tons of unexploded ordnance (UXO) dating back to World Wars I and II rest beneath the surface. From sea mines ...

Stories Behind the Stars founder says the pace of stories being written has doubled since 2000 but the group still needs more ...

Four crew members’ remains are beginning to return to their hometowns after a remarkable investigation by family members and a recovery mission involving elite Navy divers.

Two Westmoreland County airmen who survived the loss of their B-29 bombers during separate World War II missions over Japan ...

Pvt. Ben Leslie’s life was snuffed out aboard a Japanese “hell ship” in January 1945. Moored at the port of Takao in present-day Taiwan, the ship Enoura Maru held the New Mexico soldier and other ...

Kei Ishikawa's A Pale View of Hills, based on the book by Kazuo Ishiguro, is a layered and thoughtful look at the lasting ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako will visit Hiroshima next month to honor the war dead ahead of the 80th ...