Thousands of people have come together to mark Anzac Day across the country, 110 years after Australian and New Zealand ...

The Tōkaidō was the most important route in 19th-century Japan. It connected Edo (modern-day Tokyo), the de facto capital ...

Explore how Japanese culture shaped Star Wars—from samurai codes and Zen philosophy to Kurosawa's films, Jedi ethics, and lightsaber design.

Today the city's ancient Citadel and Imperial City, a UNESCO site, was largely rebuilt but still bears signs of the fighting. A little off the beaten path near the border with Laos is Hamburger Hill, ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan is arranging a meeting between Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and descendants of Japanese nationals left behind in the Philippines after World War II during a planned visit ...

My Grandfather Was A Pow Of The Japanese When This Photo Was Taken, And He Had Never Met The Baby, My Mother, B. May 1941 Image credits: grannybubbles #77 My Favorite Pictures Of My Great-Grandpa ...

Here's what to know about the attack on the Missouri and the pilot's burial: Japan launched a suicide attack campaign as a last-ditch measure to push U.S. forces back late in the war, when it was ...

Maribel Sikes and her mom walked into a commissary on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. As they pushed their cart through ...

The Imperial couple has visited Iwoto Island ... More than 27,000 people, including soldiers from Japan and the United States, died on the island near the end of the war in 1945.

As the country’ observed the 83rd anniversary of the Fall of Bataan (that has been renamed Araw ng Kagitingan), Secretary of National Defense Gilberto Teodoro on Wednesday said that the heroism and ...

The island in the village of Ogasawara, Tokyo, was the site of an intense battle between Japanese and ... with them, the imperial couple visited three memorial facilities on the island on Monday ...

in honor of the thousands of defenders who died trying to hold their lines against the Japanese Imperial Army. Today, we celebrate the 83rd anniversary of the Death March, which is a landmark ...