When Imperial Japan’s Yamato-class battleships were first laid down prior to World War II, they were the heaviest of their kind ever built. These great warships were expected to lead Japan’s ...

This image on the official X account of the GSDF's 32nd Infantry Regiment shows a post using the term "Daitoa Senso" (Greater East Asia War). TOKYO -- A Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF ...

World War II ended 75 years ago, but not all countries commemorate it on the same day. Wednesday is the anniversary of the formal Sept. 2, 1945, surrender of Japan to the United States ...

Tokyo Black Hole: Year Zero in Post-WWII Japan World War II has just ended. Tokyo is a destitute, broken, lawless place driven by hunger and greed. From over 100,000 pages of declassified CIA ...

documentWW2: Countdown to Hiroshima: The bomb that changed the world A timeline of the events in the days and hours before the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. WW2: How close did D ...

Despite Japan's early advantages and the underestimation ... a strategic surprise as they did from the Japanese in World War II. Only, unlike back then, the attacker will have the superior defense ...

The Japanese surrender in World War II brought to a close one of the darkest ... it took the Empire of Japan several more months to admit they'd been defeated. Most believe the atomic bombings ...

Seoul controversially agrees to compensate its own citizens rather than seeking money from Japan. Kim Bok-dong, who was forced into a brothel by Japan aged 14, refused to give up her fight for ...

The Japanese American soldiers helped drive the German army out of Italy and continued into eastern France, fighting nonstop for nearly two months in the Vosges Mountains. Their last-ditch effort ...

(Mainichi) MAEBASHI -- A granddaughter of Kantaro Suzuki shared memories with the Mainichi Shimbun on April 17 about the life of the prime minister in office during Japan's World War II defeat.

We're not trying to do anything different, we're just trying to make it our own." The layout of the restaurant is a nod to traditional Japanese ramen restaurants with an open kitchen visible to ...

TOKYO -- A Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) regiment has created a stir by using the term "Greater East Asia War" to refer to the Pacific War in a post on social media in reference to a ...