The aftermath of the Second World War was incredibly chaotic and missing Japanese soldiers that turned up years later weren’t ...

In the final months of World War II, a small team of American commandos parachuted into the mountains of northern Vietnam to ...

Wall St. Insights Japan occupied all or part of over 20 countries during World War II. The U.S. and its allies liberated many ...

After World War II ended, Japan’s sudden surrender brought an end to its harsh occupation of Indonesia and created a power ...

Along with the Type 99, the Japanese Type 38 "Arisaka" was one of the main bolt-action battle rifles used by Japanese imperial forces during World War II.

Aerial warfare historian Yusuke Orita was thrilled when his decade-long effort to collect and analyze U.S. military war film footage ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Bottom line, no likely masterstroke — no single stratagem or killing blow — would have defeated the United States. Rather, Japanese commanders should have thought and ...

The state-sanctioned cruelty inflicted upon POWs and indigenous peoples by Japanese soldiers from the 1920s to the ’40s is told in unflinching detail by Bryan Mark Rigg in “Japan’s Holocaust: History ...

Rosa Kanashiro, one of the individuals seeking Japanese nationality, shows off her nails painted by a Japanese manicurist ...