A team of 15 specialist divers dove into waters off the coast of the Philippines last month—initiating a forensic recovery operation that one Pentagon scientist said could take "months or years." ...

Capt. Robert A Lewis wrote the account during and in the immediate aftermath of dropping the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, ...

They survived the fall of Bataan, endured years of Japanese captivity, and were crammed into the suffocating hold of a transport ship headed for forced labor in Japan. Then American bombs hit the ...

Two villains emerge in this documentary: a historic earthquake, and corrupt people.

Bearing marks of a censure's stamp and a government star, a few letters on view at Harvard's Houghton Library recall the vast injustice of Japanese internment during WWII — and reverberate now.

Pvt. Ralph Ambrose Landis of Chambersburg was killed in action on Iwo Jima on March 13, 1945. The nonprofit Stories Behind the Stars is remembering Landis and other fallen WWII soldiers. Landis ...

Join the Rice County Historical Society on March 19th at 6pm for the talk “Enmity and Empathy: Japanese Americans During WWII” with Dr. Ka Wong. This talk takes place at ...

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, second-generation Japanese American soldiers signed up to fight for the United States in World War II even as their families were locked up in govern ...

Japan’s new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi warned that the country is facing its “most severe and complex security environment” since World War II, pointing to China’s expanding military activities ...

Facing relentless American bombing, Japan launched its largest ground offensive of WW2 in China to seize US airfields and disrupt Allied supply routes. The operation achieved limited short term ...

Adjunct Professor of History and Affiliated Faculty, USC Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Cultures, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences The Mellon Foundation has provided ...

The Imperial Japanese Navy launched hundreds of fighters and bombers at Pearl Harbor in an effort to paralyze the main U.S. naval base for the Pacific Fleet near Honolulu, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941.