Despite the successes of the I-19 in the war, Japan was never able to connect these victories with a larger strategy for ...

Their ordeal continued even after August 15, 1945, when Japan surrendered unconditionally to the Allied forces, ending the second world war, the deadliest conflict in history. 5 things to know ...

On April 11, 1945, a Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball during the ...

The bombs also brought an end to the Second World War, with Japan surrendering on August 15. “Mr President, I feel I have blood on my hands,” Oppenheimer told then-president Truman in the ...

The last retired military personnel or civilian employee who received Japanese government medical benefits for trauma or ...

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has praised the friendship and trust that his country and Japan have developed ... those who died in battle during World War II TOKYO -- U.S. Secretary ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito visited Iwo Jima on Monday to pay tribute to those who died on the island where one of the Second ...

By the outbreak of the Second World War, Japan had already taken over Taiwan, Korea and parts of China, while Italy had colonised Libya and Ethiopia in Africa. But the allies had power over many ...

World War II utterly transformed Mobile and its economy. The explosion began in the late 1930s, when local companies such as Alcoa began producing war materiel for Japan and European countries.

Beginning one hundred years ago with the earthquake in Tokyo in 1923, as well as the Second World War, Japan has — several times — experienced massive devastation to its cities' infrastructure ...

In Total War, eyewitnesses from Britain, Germany, Russia, Korea, Japan, and the United States tell the story of the civilians – children, sisters, brothers – who suffered and died in the Second World ...