Two Long Island historical memorabilia collectors say they will turn over 41 flags carried by Japanese servicemen in World ...

Takamatsu Gushiken turns on a headtorch 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 ...

Nearly 80 years after the end of World War II, 1.2 million Japanese war dead are still unaccounted for. That's about half of the 2.4 million Japanese, mostly soldiers, who died during Japan's ...

Part of the Ogasawara archipelago, Chichijima lays some 150 miles north of Iwo Jima and 500 miles south of the Japanese home islands ... in on the home islands during late 1944, closing the ...

Gil Won-ok, who was among tens of thousands of Korean women forced into brothels for Japanese soldiers during World War II, and who became — after decades of silence — a leading voice for ...

Takamatsu Gushiken hunts caves in Okinawa’s jungles for the bones of those who died in the WWII Battle of Okinawa, one of the ...

WWII introduced service members to ... And the news was no better for the 57,000 soldiers in the invading army, where some Japanese units were thought to be 90% combat-ineffective with malaria ...

The 4,000 men, who initially came in April 1943, had to be replaced nearly 3.5 times. In total, about 14,000 men served, ...

Washington, March 19 (Jiji Press)--A U.S. Army website about Japanese-American troops during World War II was temporarily taken down, as U.S. President Donald Trump's administration works to ...

Eri Nakamura, an associate professor of modern Japanese history ... hundreds of thousands of soldiers suffered from neuropsychiatric disorders during World War II based on fragmentary military ...