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

KOHIMA, India—Eighty years after the Imperial Japanese Army lost one of its bloodiest battles in World War II, a cenotaph was dedicated to the Japanese troops who died in the desperate campaign.

The National Interest now looks at the Nakajima Ki 27, aka the Type 97, which was the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force’s (IJAAF) main fighter until the official start of World War II.

In fact, getting US troops to take the Imperial Japanese Army seriously was more difficult than some histories of the Pacific war would suggest. The Army research program that almost wasn't The ...

At the time, the defense of Manila was the single most consequential event of the Pacific War from the point of view of the law of armed conflict. Wars-of-continuation decided the fates of Vietnam ...

But one aspect that isn't on the itinerary are the Indonesians who were mobilized as laborers during Japan's occupation Naruhito will meet with descendants of Imperial Japanese Army soldiers who ...

On December 22, 1941, the 14 th Japanese Imperial Army, under the command of Lieutenant General Masaharu Homma, landed at Lingayen Gulf in Northern Luzon. The 14 th Army, with approximately 43,000 ...

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 ...