During the Battle of the Philippine Sea in June 1944, a young Japanese dive bomber pilot spotted incoming American torpedoes ...

In September 1944, US Marines stormed Peleliu expecting an easy victory, but Colonel Kunio Nakagawa had transformed the island into a deadly fortress. Hidden gun emplacements and fortified coral ...

Efforts to redevelop a historically significant house in the Philippines to memorialize local women abused there by Japanese soldiers during World War II are facing funding and logistical hurdles, ...

Nobuko Rena Nakayama says she still suffers from an identity crisis after being forced to move to Japan from Canada in 1946.

The ship will displace more than 35,000 tons and be capable of speeds exceeding 30 knots, according to the Navy. The ...

No reports of major injuries or structural damage have emerged, and authorities have not issued a tsunami warning.

The quake struck the country's north just days after a 7.5-magnitude earthquake in the same region injured 50 people.

Japan faces a significant threat from a powerful earthquake along the Nankai Trough. This event, predicted to occur within ...

Japan's government may consider retrieving items from a World War II shipwreck. The vessel sank more than 80 years ago while ...

The idea came to Moylan on a rainy day in April 1986 when he hopped in one of Ford's employee fleet cars to drive to a ...

Project Recover uses advanced underwater technology to locate missing service members from past conflicts. The nonprofit has ...

HAN QIANG/XINHUA That mission came into sharp focus in Quzhou, a city deeply scarred by Japan's biological warfare during the ...