Eighty years ago, Japan lost its war against the United States. The battlefield was the vast Pacific Ocean and the islands ...

During the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Pacific War, some 2.3 million Japanese soldiers and military personnel lost their ...

The creative force behind the 'Gundam' robot anime franchise, 83-year-old Tomino Yoshiyuki, speaks to NHK for the 80th ...

University chief justifies Pacific War in high school lecture By HIDEKI ITO/ Staff Writer December 10, 2021 at 17:45 JST ...

This month marks 80 years since Japan surrendered in World War II, ending the Pacific War. In this episode of Japan Today Spotlight, we look at how the country is commemorating the anniversary — and ...

Across the Pacific, every battle and every skirmish had led to this moment. A colossal US armada made up of 1,500 ships and a staggering half a million men prepared for the invasion of the tiny island ...

The Japanese military attacked Pearl Harbor on Oahu island in Hawaii in the early morning of Dec. 8, 1941, Japan time, opening the Pacific War, which lasted more than three years and eight months.

The Pacific skies were ruled by two American icons: the F4U Corsair and the F6F Hellcat. Each had strengths, weaknesses, and ...

The families of people who die at war often find their grief is compounded by lack of closure. One American woman recently gave her grandfather a fitting sendoff decades after he was killed in the ...

Jun Fujisaki, left, listens to HKD Incorporated Foundation Director Tsukasa Fujioka tell the story of returnees coming back from overseas after the war at an exhibition of remnants of the war, at ...