World War II officially ended on September 2, 1945, when Japan surrendered to the Allied forces. However, for some soldiers, ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako are considering a visit to Iwoto Island in April to pay respects to the victims ...

Then 55, he was the last of the 'holdouts' – the name given to the small band of Japanese soldiers who battled on long after the war, refusing to believe reports of Emperor Hirohito's admission ...

From a crumbling pill box in the UK to a derelict rail line in Hawaii, these are the abandoned World War II places that the ...

her father was called up for military service when he was 21. He was detained in Siberia by the Soviet Union after World War II ended and returned to Japan in 1948. He lost himself to alcohol and ...

Japan. WW2: How close did D-Day come to failure? documentWW2: How close did D-Day come to failure? Over 150,000 British, US and Canadian soldiers had landed by air and sea and pushed their way ...

(Mainichi/Tamiko Kobayashi) CHIBA -- A message of friendship apparently sent to an Imperial Japanese Army lieutenant who served in the Philippines during World War II from a Filipino soldier he ...

Japan will expand an unprecedented military aid program, the first of its kind since World War II, to help the armed forces ...

Approved on Dec. 27, 2024, the upcoming defense budget beginning April 1 is up 9.4% to a record 8.7 trillion yen, the ...

Japan's concerns over a potential U.S. retreat from the region have grown amid China's increasingly assertive military posture.