Even Winston Churchill neglected to give their achievements sufficient weight in his magisterial account of the Second World ...

The Imphal operation during World War II is known as one of the most reckless battles waged by the Imperial Japanese Army.

The A7M Reppu (Strong Gale) was conceived to succeed the legendary A6M Zero, but it never entered service. Reports from Japan ...

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However, before the Hamaki, Mitsubishi built a couple of other twin-engine bombers that were a brief proverbial “flash in the ...

when more than 200,000 civilians were massacred by the Imperial Japanese Army in the city, then China’s capital. Consequently the US, the Netherlands and Great Britain increasingly refused to ...

The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about "war trauma," which the Japanese government began ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako on Monday paid their respects to the war dead on Ioto Island in the Pacific, the site of ...

The personal belongings of a man who died at age 26 in the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima on the same day he joined the now-defunct Imperial Japanese military will be displayed at a relative's ...

When the war finally broke out and Japan started conquering British, Dutch, French, and American territories, waves of volunteers of different nationalities joined the ranks of the Imperial Army.

April 29 (Jiji Press)--Personal belongings of a man who died at 26 in the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima on the same day he joined the now-defunct Imperial Japanese military will be displayed at ...

Shortly after 3:20 p.m., they arrived at the cenotaph dedicated to the war dead, honoring Imperial Japanese Army officers and soldiers. Both bowed, offered bouquets of white flowers and again ...