The kamikaze suicide plane was a last-ditch effort to stave off defeat by a desperate Japan. But its fatal flaw doomed its ...

Set in the aftermath of Japan’s defeat in World War II ... Takashi Yamazaki: For me, Godzilla is a symbol of war and nuclear destruction, so I thought I must incorporate the suicide missions ...

On a hill overlooking Onagawa Bay in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, stands a monument to a Canadian pilot who was killed in ...

Angry Korean plaintiffs strongly protested and expressed frustration Friday after Japan's top court finalized its rejection ...

Japanese tourists still flock to memorial sites to remember the young men who crashed their planes into Allied warships.

The life and death of acclaimed writer Yukio Mishima is a cautionary reminder of the complex, sometimes dangerous ...

The shrine is seen by Beijing and Seoul as a symbol of Japan's past military aggression because it includes 14 Japanese wartime leaders convicted as war criminals by an Allied tribunal among the 2 ...

A train station in Damascus was once the pride of the Syrian capital, an essential link between Europe and the Arabian ...

Bicycles have a deep-rooted history in India and Japan. They are not only means of transportation but are also symbols of a ...

Six years after it started, World War II ended in 1945 with Nazi Germany surrendering in May and its leaders going on trial ...

Drawn by factory work, Chicago’s Japanese American community grew from hundreds before the war to about 20,000 afterward ... It depicts Daruma, a Buddhist monk and symbol of toughness in ...