A former U.S. Navy surface-warfare officer, he was the last gunnery officer in history to fire a battleship’s big guns in anger, during the first Gulf War in 1991. He earned the Naval War ...

Two Westmoreland County airmen who survived the loss of their B-29 bombers during separate World War II missions over Japan ...

An unexploded U.S. bomb from World War II that had been buried at a Japanese ... the bomb exploded at Miyazaki Airport in southwestern Japan. Officials said an investigation by the Self-Defense ...

Japan began invading China well before World War II. In 1931 they took over Manchuria and set it up as a separate country called Manchukuo that was under Japanese control. In 1937 the second Sino ...

A World War II airman who was taken captive by Japanese forces and died in a prison fire after his plane was ... and were especially suited to fly to Japan from bases in China during World War ...

A Japan Ground Self-Defense Force service members with Fire Leading Company ... severe and complex security environment since World War II, attributing the outlook to China, Russia, North Korea ...

Takamatsu Gushiken has spent years voluntarily locating bodies, and fragments of bodies, of World War II victims in Japan’s Okinawa's jungle. Over 80 years since a major battle, Gushiken shared ...

World War II officially ended later in the year on Sept. 2 when the Japanese signed an instrument of surrender, though Japan waved a white flag on Aug. 14 – about a week after the United States ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako on Monday made a rare visit to the tiny Pacific island of Iwo Jima to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. The Japanese island ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito visited Iwo Jima on Monday and paid tribute to thousands of Japanese and Americans who died in one of World War II’s bloodiest battles. Naruhito and his wife ...