Eighty years ago, on Jan. 9, 1945, I Corps landed on the beaches of northern Luzon at Lingayen Gulf, playing a ...

Strange Stories of WWII, Hiroo Onoda was a Japanese intelligence officer in the Imperial Japanese Army, who refused to surrender until decades after World War II had ended. Congress faces Friday ...

Tysoe said his maternal grandfather was mobilized by the now-defunct Imperial Japanese Army to build the Thai-Burma railway, also known as the "Death Railway." More than 10,000 POWs are said to ...

The party also studied the site of an Imperial Japanese Army airfield on the Okhotsk Sea coast to the north of Bettobu (Reidovo) in the north of the island. The runway, which lies not far from ...

The Guinness World Records has recognised a 108-year-old woman from Japan, as the world’s oldest female barber. Despite her age, she remains committed to her work.

Kazuo Senaga Born in 1940, Suzuyo Takazato remembers the war and how the Imperial Japanese army used Okinawan civilians as human shields against the American onslaught. After the war, she recalled ...

The relics are grim remnants of the vast tunnel network dug by the Imperial Japanese Army under Shuri-jo castle before the fierce Battle of Okinawa in 1945. Previously closed-off parts of the ...

The Army’s removal of online content highlighting the service of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, including the ...

Trump said, "American liberty was secured, in part, by young men who stormed the black sand shores of Iwo Jima and defeated the Japanese Imperial Army eight decades ago." He went on, "In spite of ...

Iwo Jima means “sulfur island” in Japanese, and Japan’s imperial army had fortified its caves with tunnels and other defenses. The charred island smoldered. Its bluffs and beaches became a ...