U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth praised Saturday the friendship and trust that his country and Japan have developed ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth hailed the “shared warrior ethos” between the US and Japan Saturday on Iwo Jiwa, where he ...

In his speech, Hegseth cast the alliance as “the cornerstone of freedom, prosperity, security and peace in the Indo-Pacific,” ...

He will be the first sitting prime minister to visit the island since April 2013, when then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made a ...

Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian who was one of the six Marines photographed hoisting a U.S. flag on Iwo Jima in 1945 ... a 1993 speech at the Marine Corps War Memorial, Marine Corps Commandant Gen.

Despite the success of the Stinger at Iwo Jima, the story stops here. Six months after American forces raised the flag on Mount Suribachi, Emperor Hirohito officially announced that Japan would ...

With veterans watching on, a bronze sculpture honoring the World War II battle of Iwo Jima was lifted onto a ... the monument needed to be developed. Memorial bricks will also be placed on the ...

Iwo Jima has always been beautiful ... car for each country — and we would sometimes pass the Marine Corps War Memorial, Rosenthal’s photo cast as a bronze statue. My father would go quiet.

The vast number of graves he saw on Iwo Jima remains a lasting memory for Robert Bergen, a former Navy corpsman and one of the few remaining survivors of the battle fought there 80 years ago.