Sergeant David Akui walked along Waimanalo Beach on the morning of Dec. 8, 1941, and spotted what he thought was a sea turtle ...

Japanese Americans during World War II were closed — two months after Japan surrendered to the Allied Forces. Two women, who ...

YOKOHAMA, Japan — On the 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II, the names of more than 1,000 troops who died as prisoners of war were read aloud Tuesday during a memorial ceremony at ...

Takamatsu Gushiken turns on a headlamp and enters a cave buried in Okinawa's jungle. He gently runs his fingers through the gravel until two pieces of bone emerge. These are from the skulls, he says, ...

FUKUOKA, Japan — Nearly 80 years after they were captured and killed in the final days of World War II, dozens of U.S. airmen were honored Friday with a solemn ceremony that also reckoned with the ...

Deep-sea explorers scouring the world's oceans for sunken World War II ships are focusing in on debris fields deep in the Pacific, in an area where one of the most decisive battles of the time took ...

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, ...

TOKYO — Japan paid tribute on Friday to more than three million dead as the country marked its surrender that ended World War II 80 years ago. Despite the honor, concern is creeping in about the ...

A famed Japanese destroyer sunk by U.S. torpedoes during a pivotal battle in World War II has been discovered on the floor of the Pacific Ocean more than 80 years after it sank, an exploration team ...

British military established Chattogram War Cemetery to bury, honor soldiers killed in action - Anadolu Ajansı ...