The soldiers served as a key part of U.S. intelligence, but nearly 50 years passed before their efforts became public.

Born from the trauma of World War II, this bow-wearing cartoon icon became a powerful tool for diplomacy, reinvention, and ...

Smithsonian writer Rachel Ng, who reported on the endeavor. A transcript is below. To subscribe to “There’s More to That,” ...

Nicknamed the “Tokyo Express” by their opponents, the Japanese “tin cans” acquired the grudging respect of the Americans for ...

After his plane was shot down, Glenn H. Hodak was sent to a military prison in Tokyo, where he was killed by U.S. firebombing ...

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth praised Saturday the friendship and trust that his country and Japan have developed ...

Joe Harris, believed to be the oldest surviving WWII paratrooper and a member of the U.S. Army’s first all-Black parachute ...

The man believed to be the oldest surviving World War II paratrooper has died. Sgt. Joe Harris was a member of the U.S.

In honor of his mother and others imprisoned at the internment camp, baseball player Dan Kwong has restored a diamond in the ...

Robinson served with the Army during World War II before famously breaking baseball’s color barrier in 1947 with the Brooklyn Dodgers.

When the United States entered World War II following the attacks on Pearl Harbor, Audrey Horton was just eight years-old. As ...

Haruka Sakaguchi is a documentary photographer. On Tuesday, Sakaguchi presented on her newest project, "The Camps America ...