When I was a kid, I was fascinated by a traditional katana my grandfather had brought home from Japan in 1945. Years later, I ...

Tomesuke Umeki, an officer in the Imperial Japanese Army, carried the sword with him when he left Takaharu around 1941 for a Japanese-controlled territory during the Pacific War. He traveled from ...

The Japanese officers (and NCOs) had to surrender their swords, and anyone who wanted one merely had to fill in the appropriate form. Since the war the only action it has seen has been hedge ...

Restoration work on a metal artifact found in Berlin, Germany, has revealed it to be an "ornately decorated" Japanese ... sword—like those worn by German officers during WWII, which would ...

SETOUCHI, Okayama Prefecture—A group effort in this sword-production area ... general of the Imperial Japanese Army overseeing Burma during World War II. Its ownership was likely transferred ...