Kamikaze attacks were a last-ditch effort as Japan faced defeat, with only one known surviving Tsurugi. ...

In the later stages of the Second World War in the Pacific, Japan was desperate. They turned to a new tactic - kamikaze. Although suicide attacks had been used haphazardly before, the kamikaze ...

At age 16, he joined the Imperial Japanese Navy’s preparatory pilot training course and became a special unit member in October 1944. After seeing the first kamikaze unit swing into action off ...

News of Kozuka’s death shocked the Japanese authorities. Both soldiers had long been declared dead after the death of Shimada in 1954. Popular consensus suggested it simply was not possible for the ...

A notorious branch of the imperial Japanese army, it carried out horrifying human experiments and murdered more than 200,000 people during World War Two. The inhumane sect conducted their gruesome ...

The US Destroyer Warship USS Mannert L. Abele, which was sunken by a Japanese kamikaze bomb in April of 1945, was discovered by archaeologists in Japanese waters this week, according to a Thursday ...

In the small hours of a warm summer day, the B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay flew from a US base on Tinian over the Japanese mainland ... people thought at the time. WW2: Countdown to Hiroshima ...

For the word puzzle clue of a japanese aircraft loaded with explosives and making a deliberate suicidal crash on an enemy target, the Sporcle Puzzle Library found the following results. Explore more ...

The brush character handwritten with a brush is processed in monochrome (binarization) and the background is completely white, making it easy to cut out. The brush character handwritten with a brush ...

TORY PLOTTERS say they would have been on a “kamikaze mission” if they carried on their war on Rishi Sunak. Rebels admitted that Conservative MPs were not willing to “pull the trigger ...

BAE Systems Scotstoun have welcomed a 98-year-old WW2 veteran to check out their new ship which ... for the war in the Far East – not least to bolster defences against Japanese Kamikaze suicide ...