On a cloudless day off the Philippines coast, Shigetoshi Kaneko held onto floating debris while adrift, clinging to hope ...

Japanese forces captured Attu, a small island at the western tip of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands. They destroyed the homes and ...

The Battle of Okinawa was an 82-day ordeal that saw American servicemen, Japanese soldiers ... this singular battle alter the course of World War II’s final months? The Battle of Okinawa ...

Deep sea explorers have found two Japanese aircraft carriers that were ... Torpedoed US warship found, solving 75-year-old cold case Bodies of US WW2 troops found on Pacific island Searching ...

A combination of the Japanese and former Manchurian ... some historians have begun describing the battle fought at Nomonhan as the true “starting point” of World War II.

It would go down as one of the biggest carrier battles of World War II. Japan lost three aircraft carriers and more than 300 planes. On Saipan, the Marines and army faced an enemy well dug-in and ...

But on August 21, a Japanese crew that did not yet know World War II was officially over launched an attack that would be the final battle of the war. It was also the last battle between two ships ...

As a step toward allowing public viewing of the site for the first time after World War II ... remains from the Battle of Okinawa, including positions of the Imperial Japanese Army and natural ...

"The Japanese invasion of India, of which the battle of Kohima was a significant ... the fortunes of British-led forces in Asia in WW2 One reason was the British partition of India soon after ...