Out of the 1,500 men on his ship, Del Thielke was the only one selected to be aboard the USS Missouri when the peace treaty ...

World War II narratives, up for grabs. In September, China held a military parade to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the ...

In 1944, a few hundred U.S.-born Japanese Americans defied their draft orders, citing the constitutional rights of the ...

On the 7th of December 1941, the Japanese launched their surprise military strike on the United States naval base at Pearl ...

A diplomatic row with Japan over Taiwan has China turning to Britain and France for support, appealing to their shared ...

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

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.

Crown Prince Fumihito, the younger brother of Emperor Naruhito, said ahead of his 60th birthday on Sunday that he found the ...

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

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will mark the 75th anniversary of its World War Two surrender on Saturday in a memorial ceremony scaled back because of the COVID-19 pandemic, as ties with neighbours China 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 ...