Operation Barney was conceptualized by Vice Admiral Lockwood to avenge the loss of Wahoo and her intrepid crew.

Japan is made up of 6,852 islands and both volcanic and seismic activity is permanent, with a long history of earthquakes and tsunamis. It is estimated that on land and underwater there are about ...

More than 200,000 people lost their lives as fighting engulfed Japan's southern prefecture. American troops first landed on Zamami in the Kerama Islands, about 40 kilometers west of Okinawa's main ...

Okubo held senior posts in the Foreign Ministry and served as Japan's envoy to Hungary during the 1940s. He wrote about feeling powerless to stop Japan's headlong march into war. "There was ...

USA, Oita Prefecture--The last moments of Japan’s mammoth battleship Yamato were captured in extremely rare color footage taken from U.S. military aircraft in World War II, a war-history group said.

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. File photo taken on May 3, 1946 shows a scene of Tokyo Trials in Japan. After WWII, the ...

Ishiba apparently judged that it is of no small significance to reaffirm Japan's postwar path as a peaceful ... Shinzo Abe on the 70th anniversary of WWII's end. By Feb. 27, Ishiba had begun ...