KAKAMIGAHARA, Gifu Prefecture--The children of the ... sphere of influence of the Allies amid the worsening war situation, the Imperial Japanese Army took an interest in the A-26 for its ...

Gifu Prefecture is in the Chubu region ... like stepping onto a movie set. Envision Japan’s greatest samurai battle in Sekigahara, where Tokugawa Ieyasu and Ishida Mitsunari’s armies fought.

TAKAYAMA, Gifu Prefecture--A former kamikaze ... called off in the closing days of World War II. Thomas Hahn, a correspondent covering Japan and South Korea for the German newspaper Suddeutsche ...

“Made up of two areas, the mountainous north and the river-rich south, the Gifu prefecture offers a traditional Japanese ...