“We knew that the right thing to do would be to send the flag home, to be in Japan and to the family.” The soldier's eldest son, Toshihiro Mutsuda, was speechless for a few seconds when ...

This footage shows the turnout of thousands of Japanese citizens, both men and women, for the country’s first free election ...

U.S. flags across the nation will be lowered to half-staff on Saturday for National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.

A block in downtown San Francisco is being renamed for acclaimed photojournalist Joe Rosenthal, who won the Pulitzer Prize ...

President Joe Biden and governors around the U.S. have directed that flags fly at half-staff Saturday, December 7.

SINGAPORE: Asian stocks slid, bond yields rose and the dollar was perched near a two-year high on Thursday after ...

CALIPATRIA, Calif. — The little desert town of Calipatria, known for its state prison, is a humble place. It struggles with ...

Decades-long rules banning the participation of most women in the traditional Soma Nomaoi festival held annually in and aroun ...

Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day — Dec. 7 each year — honors the day in 1941 when the U.S. Naval base in Hawaii's Pearl Harbor ...

Japan Cup winner Do Deuce, the last horse to have beaten the champion Equinox, has run his final race and been retired to stud immediately. Do Deuce had been set to go off an odds-on favourite in ...

Everywhere she went in the United States, she saw Stars and Stripes flags. It was surreal to her. She asked an employee of the Japanese consulate general for red and white fabrics and scissors.