No war – won or lost – is ever waged without sacrifice. Those sacrifices can be material in the loss of equipment or infrastructure, monetary in the cost to a nation’s economy of waging a war but ...

A mid-air collision that should have ended in disaster turned into one of WWII’s most bizarre aviation events. Two planes got stuck together—but what happened next is even more unbelievable.

Every August, Japanese media outlets offer specials on World War II and accounts of survivors’ wartime experiences. These features center around Aug. 15, the date when Emperor Hirohito announced ...

GalleryUsing pictures left by her grandmother, photographer Jennifer Sakai retraces the story of her ancestors, who were sent to the Poston camp during World War II. When Jennifer Sakai's ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba vowed Friday to resolve a longstanding territorial dispute between Japan and Russia that has prevented the countries from signing a peace treaty, calling the lack of ...

Among them was a Japanese sword he’d found on an Okinawa beach in the final days of World War II. It was six months after I first asked Benny if he’d be interested in finding the sword’s owner.

Sushi Row in Los Angeles, located on Ventura Boulevard in the San Fernando Valley, helped to spread the gospel of sushi ...

The remains of a long-lost WWII warship have been identified after more than 80 years when it was attacked and sunk by Nazis in 1944. The ship was carrying 270 men and 100 were killed in battle.

Japanese troops last week defused another American-made shell believed to be left over from World War II and removed it from ...

It was reorganized in 1942 under the Bank of Japan Act of 1942, which reflected the wartime context. The Act of 1942 was amended several times after World War II, and the establishment of the ...

Kyiv 's forces launched a “new series of battalion-sized mechanised assaults in Kursk Oblast and advanced up to five kilometres behind Russian lines southeast of Sudzha, Kursk Oblast,” the Institute ...