The most surprising find was the first-ever discovery of underwater aircraft that had flown on the Midway battlefield, NOAA ...

A former airbase used by the United States in World War II to drop the two atomic bombs on Japan’s Hiroshima and Nagasaki is ...

A vehicle was found in the hangar of the USS Yorktown, which was famously sunk by a Japanese submarine during the Battle of Midway in June 1942.

A landscaper working on a historical film about the Battle of Okinawa uncovered human remains last summer on Ie Shima.

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 transfer prompted correspondence and messages of gratitude from prominent Japanese government ... to the history of the Pacific and Asiatic Theaters in World War II.

Returned by the US to Japan in 1968, and eventually renamed Iwo-To (Iō-Tō) in 2007, Iwo Jima (which means “sulfur island” in Japanese) was the site of one of World War II’s most important ...

By Robert Abate This year marks the 80th Anniversary of the American invasion of Okinawa – Easter Sunday, April 01, 1945 – ...

Yasukuni shrine was constructed in commemoration of the 2.5 million people who died serving the Emperor of Japan from 1867–1951, including 14 convicted war criminals from World War II.