Heads bowed, experts offered their respects on Monday ahead of an excavation aimed at recovering the remains of Japanese ...

On February 17, 1944, American carrier aircraft struck Truk Lagoon, one of Japan’s most important naval bases in the central Pacific. The target was not a beachhead. No Marines were waiting in landing ...

TOKYO — Senior U.S. and Japanese officials tend to shy away from anything but very careful public comments about Japan's 1941 sneak attack on U.S. forces at Pearl Harbor. So there was embarrassment, ...

Late in World War II, Japan launched thousands of paper balloon bombs across the Pacific using the jet stream to carry explosives toward North America. The plan was to ignite forest fires, spread fear ...

It's a reflection of just how fresh the political debate about Japan's role in World War II remains here, even 80 years after its end. TOKYO (AP) — Senior U.S. and Japanese officials tend to shy away ...