Tyler Smith, a recreation planner from San Francisco, recently climbed a forested mountainside in western Tokyo to honor the ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unexploded bombs in Japan not uncommon Finding unexploded ordnance from World War II is not an uncommon occurrence in Japan, given the massive amount of bombs that were dropped on the country ...