The first shots of World War One are fired in Africa ... Mariana and Marshall Islands. Later in the war, Japan sends warships to help protect Allied shipping in the Mediterranean.

Japan’s observance of the war’s end in August ... 6, 1945, is the day Hiroshima was leveled by the world’s first atomic bomb. This specific date is the starting point of today’s grass ...

The first Japanese aircraft carrier since World War II Representatives of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force reported that ...