Unlike Pearl Harbor, the American Naval and Army leadership in the Philippines had intelligence that the Japanese had attacked Hawaii. The Philippines received the intel at 3 a.m. on December 8, 1941.

In 1914, the Imperial Army adopted a modified version of the Hotchkiss heavy machine gun. The gun was designated the Type 3, so-called because it was adopted during the third year of the reign of ...

Off the coast of Japan 80 years ago, a U.S. naval captain ordered his battleship to hold a burial at sea for a kamikaze pilot who died slamming his fighter plane into the American vessel ...

Beriberi was endemic in the Imperial Japanese Navy. Between 1878 and 1883, the disease incapacitated a third of sailors , on average. Beriberi cases made up almost half of all recorded injuries ...

Last week Japanese Democracy seemed to be fighting a wild, desk-banging, shrieking battle for its life in the Imperial Diet. Japanese Democracy chiefly consists of three major political parties: ...

The Rising Flag Sun is flown aboard the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force's Osumi LST-class amphibious transport dock ship Kunisaki, May 27, 2014, in Yokosuka, Japan. The flag's controversial ...

Incredible deep sea footage shows sunken Japanese aircraft carrier for the first time in 80 YEARS after it was destroyed by US fighters during Battle of Midway: Explorers also surveyed US carrier ...

In August 1914 at the outbreak of World War I, Japan, deciding to honor the terms of its 1902 alliance with Great Britain, declared war on Germany despite deep misgivings among many in the ...

The flag was accepted by Yoshinori Goto, 45, of Oita city, the grandson of Kesaji Goto, a Japanese Imperial Army soldier who carried the flag and died July 1, 1945, on Okinawa.