Here are some of the most notorious Japanese war criminals who were never found. General Shirō Ishii – The Mastermind of Unit 731 General Shirō Ishii was the commander of Unit 731, the covert Japanese ...

Nearly 80 years after a devastating fire tore through a Japanese military prison during World War II, a Defense Department agency is working to identify American prisoners of war who died in the blaze ...

Eighty years ago, U.S. President Harry Truman authorized the U.S. Initial Post-Surrender Policy for Japan. Just days earlier, aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, a Canadian diplomat made a slight ...

Public ceremony to honor Sgt. Harold M. Weaver, who died in combat on Okinawa in 1945. His remains recently were identified ...

** When you buy products through the links on our site, we may earn a commission that supports NRA's mission to protect, preserve and defend the Second Amendment. ** Japanese women were expected to be ...

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, ...

Oil has leaked from a Japanese ship sunk in Micronesia's Chuuk Lagoon during World War II, prompting a declaration of a state ...

BBC's Tokyo correspondent Shaimaa Khalil explains why in Japan the 15 August is a mourning occasion known as the "Memorial Day for the End of the War". World War Two in Europe ended in May 1945 but ...

The Izumo-Class The Japanese Izumo-class ships are officially classified as helicopter-carrying destroyers, but their si ...

China’s leader Xi Jinping, Russia’s president Vladimir Putin, North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un and other world leaders ...

Yang Huafeng, a 92-year-old Chinese army veteran, remembers the troops on horseback and the handful of planes that marked the founding of communist China in 1949.