Between 1942 and 1945, Burma was home to the Japanese Burma Area Army – at least 308,582 strong at its height – which was a demonstrable threat to India in Operations Ha-Go and U-Go in 1944.

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 ...

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: ...

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. — Eighty years ago, on Jan. 9, 1945, I Corps landed on the beaches of northern Luzon at Lingayen Gulf, playing a pivotal role in defeating the Imperial Japanese ...

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 ...

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.

Occidentals are confused when Japan enlarges her territory because at such times the Japanese Army & Navy always quarrel furiously with the Premier and civilian Cabinet members. Only after the ...

TOKYO -- Oct. 25, 2024, marked 80 years since the first "kamikaze" suicide attack was carried out by the then Imperial Japanese Navy in the later phases of the Pacific War. In the special missions ...

The U.S. Navy was far from ready to initiate a full-scale attack ... The Ki-61 was used by the Imperial Japanese Army but saw significant action in the Pacific theater as a next-generation Zero ...

The preliminary bombardment started precisely at 0700 hours on D+1, 1 February 1944. Several battleships, cruisers, and a dozen destroyers fired 7,000 rounds of high explosive and armor-piercing ...