Aerial warfare historian Yusuke Orita was thrilled when his decade-long effort to collect and analyze U.S. military war film ...
With this commemorative stamp issuance, the U.S. Postal Service recognizes the contributions of Japanese American soldiers, some 33,000 altogether, who served in the U.S. Army during World War II. For ...
More than 14 U.S. Army and Marine divisions never landed on X-Day of Operation Downfall, the planned invasion of Japan to end ...
TOKYO (AP) — Japan paid tribute Friday to more than 3 million war dead as the country marked its surrender that ended World War II 80 years ago, as concern grows about the rapidly fading memories of ...
On this Memorial Day, we turn to the life and legacy of Yukio Kawamoto. The Japanese-American World War II veteran served his country under almost unthinkable circumstances and then spent a lifetime ...
TOKYO — As Japan's defeat marking the end of WWII nears its 80th anniversary, and some events fade from living memory, history is hardly consigned to books. It lives on in unhealed wounds, ...
Visitors dressed up line up to offer prayers at the Yasukuni Shrine on the 80th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II, in Tokyo, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte) TOKYO (AP) ...