Japan's imperial ambitions in Pacific Asia from the 1880s to 1945 were shaped by a web of strategic alliances, racial politics, and great-power rivalries ...
Dozens of relatives of Japanese soldiers who died in Myanmar during World War Two have traveled to the country to honor their ...
Hideki Tojo, generalissimo of Imperial Japan during the Second World War, had a peculiar way of showing his concern for the ...
The aftermath of the Second World War was incredibly chaotic and missing Japanese soldiers that turned up years later weren’t ...
The aftermath of the Second World War was incredibly chaotic and missing Japanese soldiers that turned up years later weren’t that rare initially. One of the most curious cases must have been that of ...
As Imperial Japanese soldiers scour the streets, a group of civilians in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing seek refuge in a small photography studio. Developing photographs taken throughout the city ...
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. — Eighty years ago, on Jan. 9, 1945, I Corps landed on the beaches of northern Luzon at Lingayen Gulf, playing a pivotal role in defeating the Imperial Japanese Army ...
When I last visited Okinawa, protesters daily gathered outside of the gates of Camp Schwab, one of America’s many military installations on the Japanese island of Okinawa. The site of one of the ...
Lt. Gen. Tadamichi Kuribayashi arrived on the island of Iwo Jima in June 1944. He found a garrison led by men who argued over water rationing. Navy commanders demanded the troops defend the island at ...