Japan’s Emperor Naruhito has visited Iwo Jima to pay tribute to Japanese and Americans who died on the island in one of World ...

promising to return the islands of Shikotan and Habomai once a peace treaty was concluded. However, Japan insisted on the return of all the islands, and the treaty was never signed. In March 2022, ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito is visiting Iwo Jima to pay tribute to those who died on the island where one of World War II's harshest battles was fought 80 years ago ...

To strengthen the defense of the Nansei chain of islands stretching from southwest of Kyushu, the Self-Defense Forces has ...

Iwo Jima (Japan) (AFP) – Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako on Monday made a rare visit to the tiny Pacific island of Iwo Jima to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II.

The Japanese island, around 1,250 kilometers (780 miles) south of Tokyo, was the scene of a five-week battle between wartime enemies Japan and the United States in 1945. Nearly all of Japan's 21,000 ...

Both Norman Scott and Daniel J. Callaghan would be posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for actions during the intense ...

On April 1, 1946, a strong earthquake near the Aleutian Islands in Alaska set off a massive tsunami that hit the Hawaiian ...

Japan’s Ground ... to fiscal 2005, were all held in the United States until fiscal 2022. Since then, the drills have been conducted in Kyushu and around the Nansei island chain, which includes ...