March 1945. Japan is under pressure from all fronts: ships from the sea, boots on the ground and fire from the sky. The Japanese Empire weakened, but no sign of ...

The Pacific War in Color immerses viewers in a graphic and ... show his family in the Philippines before the war and later in Japan after the surrender, offering a different view of life during ...

USA, Oita Prefecture--The last moments of Japan’s mammoth battleship Yamato were captured in extremely rare color footage taken from U.S. military aircraft in World War II, a war-history group said.

July 7, 1944 The largest and most fearsome banzai charge of the Pacific War takes place on Saipan. Three thousand suicidal Japanese soldiers attack a U.S. Army division, overrunning two battalions.

FDR announces that, by Executive Order, Pacific Coast Japanese Americans will be relocated to internment camps. During the course of the war, over 17,000 Japanese Americans volunteer and fight for ...

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the conclusion of the Tripartite Pact between Japan, Germany and Italy, an important precursor to the Pacific War. Oshima Hiroshi was the Japanese ...