Nicknamed the “Tokyo Express” by their opponents, the Japanese “tin cans” acquired the grudging respect of the Americans for ...

A World War II airman who was taken captive by Japanese forces and died in a prison fire after his plane was shot down has ...

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has praised the friendship and trust that his country and Japan have developed while attending a memorial service on Iwo Jima to honor those who died in battle d ...

Forensics investigators identified the remains of U.S. Army Air Forces Cpl. Glenn Hodak nearly 80 years after his B-29 bomber ...

The island was the scene of 5 weeks of brutal combat between Japanese and US forces in World War II. Read more at ...

ON her sixth birthday 80 years ago, Shizuko Nishio clung to her mother as US B-29 bombers started a firestorm that turned ...

Bereaved families and others held a memorial ceremony in Tokyo on Thursday to read out the names of victims of U.S. air raids ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako will visit Iwoto Island for the first time in April to pay respects to the ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako will visit the Japanese island of Ioto to remember those who died in World War ...

Since she was little, her mother told her about how her great-grandfather was a Jew who had survived the holocaust.