On April 11, 1945, a Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball during the ...

Japanese Emperor Naruhito, left, and Empress Masako, center, are escorted by a member of Japan Self Defense Force as they arrive at the island of Iwo Jima, now officially called Iwo To in Japan ...

a Landing Ship Tank (LST), as the best in the world in landing craft. Director General, Platforms of the Australian Defence Forces, Brig.-Gen. Colin Bassett, stated this during a visit to the Flag ...

Chief among those parameters were the launch vehicle, originally a Russian Proton rocket, and the landing platform, a Russian craft named Kazachok. Both are now out of the picture. Related ...

Belarusian prosecutors say a Japanese man who was detained in Belarus last year for alleged espionage has been sentenced to seven years in prison. Nakanishi Masatoshi, a former Japanese language ...

Yuki Tsunoda says he is targeting a podium finish in next week’s Japanese Grand Prix after securing a plum Formula 1 seat at Red Bull ahead of his home race. After spending just over four ...

A spacecraft carrying Japanese astronaut Onishi Takuya and three ... about 29 hours after the rocket carrying the craft lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The explosion of craft whisky in Japan follows a boom and bust in the industry. Long viewed as an inferior copycat of Scotch, Japanese single malts and blended whiskies started racking up ...

Super Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai was recently awarded the Art Encouragement Prize from the Japanese government’s Agency for Cultural Affairs for his remarkable achievement with the ...