YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — Japanese police are investigating a bomb threat against this key U.S. military hub in western Tokyo ...

About 1,400 firearms and 1,200 swords were discovered buried underneath an elementary school in Tokyo, Japan. Authorities ...

The Mainichi Shimbun answers common questions readers may have about the air raids conducted by the United States across Japan during World War II ... Q: Why did the U.S. military bomb civilians ...

Many delayed detonation bombs dropped on Japan by U.S. forces during the war were set to explode between an hour to six days after hitting the ground. When such a bomb is dropped, the wind ...

For four years, America has been at war with Japan ... the bomb will be dropped on August 6. Estimated take off time 02.45. Meanwhile, President Truman is on the USS Augusta, a US navy cruiser ...

United States dropped over 2 million tons of bombs on Laos; 80 million unexploded ordnance remains. Continue funding to clear ...

In the small hours of a warm summer day, the B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay flew from a US ... bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. A week later, Japan surrendered. The bomb brought World War Two to ...

A long-buried World War ... from Japan's 2011 earthquake and tsunami. An investigation by the Self-Defense Forces confirmed that it was a 250 -kilogram bomb made in the United States.

Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb,” has visited Hiroshima and urged Japan ... cities but did not travel to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where the United States dropped atomic ...

The United States dropped an atomic bomb on each Japanese city on August 6 and 9, 1945 -- the only times nuclear weapons have been used in warfare. Days later Japan ... Trump did not make the ...