These astonishing photographs give an unprecedented glimpse inside the world ... of Japan's largest Yakuza gang recently split off from the group - sparking fears of a bloody turf war in the ...

Victory over Japan Day, or VJ-Day ... See also: Fascinating photos of World War II.

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Snap-happy tourists will be blocked from taking pictures of Japan’s highest mountain Mount Fuji. The extreme move comes in a bid to prevent badly behaved visitors from getting their Insta-worthy ...

drawing the United States into the second World War. The conflict in the Pacific theatre climaxed with the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki four years later. Kure was also where Japan’s ...

Launching at Cannes, K2 Pictures seeks to break Japan’s production committee system of conservative filmmaking.

World War II witnessed tremendous growth in the size of American military aviation, from about 2,500 airplanes to nearly 300,000 by the war’s end. The Museum’s collection of 30 World War II-era ...

By Vivian Yee, Emma Bubola and Liam Stack A fighter fly-past returned to Russia’s World War II commemorations ... Her movies try to explain why Japan is the way it is, showing both the upsides ...

As a little girl during World War II, she lost her mother, brother, sister and grandfather. The U.S. invasion of Japan in 1945 began on the neighboring island of Okinawa. Yamazato had hoped the ...

Japan has achieved a noteworthy milestone in its military modernization efforts by converting the warship Kaga into the country's inaugural full-fledged aircraft carrier since World War II.