Imperial Japan launched a devastating Sunday morning surprise attack on the U.S. Navy and other military assets at Pearl Harbor, rousing a "sleeping giant" and thrusting an enraged America into World ...

It began at 7.55am local time, and it came without warning. On this day 80 years ago, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. The US naval base in Honolulu, Hawaii, was besieged by two waves of Japanese aircraft ...

President Franklin Roosevelt called the unprovoked attack on Pearl Harbor a “date which will live in infamy,” in a famous address to the nation delivered after Japan’s deadly strike against U.S. naval ...

THE Japanese people enter a New Year weary of three and a half years of an undeclared war which their army calls holy, and irritated with the sacrifices and deprivations resulting from that struggle.

Long-simmering tensions with the U.S. over expansion in Asia came to a head on December 7, 1941. The U.S.S. Shaw explodes during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. More than ...