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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Japanese Americans, including elderly survivors of World War II incarceration, are stepping forward to resist Trump’s ...

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 ...

Finn notes, "World War II was the first major conflict in history ... But with Japan under the control of the Americans, the most prominent Japanese war leaders came under MacArthur's jurisdiction.

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 ...