A joint U.S.-Japan investigation team was dispatched for the first time in 2024 to Iwoto Island, formerly known as Iwojima, ...

Question: I've heard that the national government is investigating former Imperial Japanese military personnel who suffered from mental disorders due to war. What kind of illness is it?

and the Imperial Army followed with its own unit. Internationally their missions are called kamikaze, but in Japan they are better known as “tokko,” which means “special attack.” ...

Even when he saw red dots on their tails — the emblem of the Imperial Japanese military — the soldiers thought it must have been the Army Air Corps carrying out maneuvers. “There’s no way ...

Marty Connor was 18 years old when he fought all 36 days during the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. But perhaps his greatest legacy would be what happened after the war. 80 years after Iwo Jima, his ...

A woman who was the last known female survivor of a World War Two campaign has died at the age of 100. Cicely Ball, who lived in Rustingdon, died at home on April 5. Cicely was born in Ootacamund, ...

By appearances, however, the group visit by the SDF members in uniform appears an organized ... Yasukuni Shrine was administered jointly by the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy and was the ...

Okunoshima, a small island in the Seto Inland Sea, is known as the site of a poison gas factory of the imperial Japanese military. But in recent years, the island has drawn thousands and thousands ...

On 8 May 2025, we mark the historic 80th anniversary of VE Day, with the peoples, families and communities of our great ...