Tsuru for Solidarity here, in concert with San Francisco Japantown, labor groups, SF Public Defender’s Office, and ...

The 442nd Regiment, combined with the 100th Infantry Battalion, is the most decorated combat unit in U.S. military history.

TOKYO — Lawmakers in Japan voted Monday to retain the embattled ... governed Japan almost uninterrupted since the end of World War II. But his future in the role was in question after the ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is arranging to attend a memorial service later this month at the site of a fierce ...

Japanese wartime leaders never made a cool-headed decision to stop the war along the way and start peace negotiations. --The Asahi Shimbun, Aug. 15 Vox Populi, Vox Dei is a popular daily column ...

Takamatsu Gushiken turns on a headtorch and enters a cave buried in Okinawa’s jungle. He gently runs his fingers through the gravel until two pieces of bone emerge. These are from the ...

He died starving as a prisoner of war after Japanese troops invaded during World War II, wresting the few dozen residents from their village, never to return. Pagano has long believed Japan should pay ...

Ishiba said Japan faces “the most severe and complicated security environment" since World War II and needs to bolster its own defense capabilities and elevate the Japan-U.S. alliance while ...

From left: Japanese Minister of Education ... With 2025 marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, issues of historical perception are expected to attract renewed attention, and ...