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 ...

Among them was a Japanese sword he’d found on an Okinawa beach in the final days of World War II. It was six months after I first asked Benny if he’d be interested in finding the sword’s owner.

One item in particular surprised them - the wakizashi, or Japanese short sword, dating back as far as the 16th century, buried at least 5,000 miles from its homeland. To make matters stranger ...

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 ...

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Archaeologists in Germany have unearthed a rare, 17th-century Japanese samurai sword from the wreckage of a cellar that was destroyed during World War II. The team discovered the heavily corroded ...

BERLIN, GERMANY—A short sword dated to seventeenth-century Japan was discovered in Berlin ... among the wreckage of cellars destroyed during World War II. While restoring the weapon ...

Today, the streets are clear and well-kept, but during World War II ... The image of a Japanese god of luck was found on the handle. Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin The sword was a Japanese wakizashi ...

TOKYO — A Japanese flag, brought to America by a U.S. soldier who served in the Philippines during World War II, has returned home ... the banner and a Japanese sword at his grandfather ...