His name was Teruo Nakamura and he had been a private in the Imperial Japanese Army. Now it was December 1974, almost 30 years since the Second World War had ended. But Nakamura was convinced that ...

NAHA--Okinawa Prefecture will preserve the remains of the Imperial Japanese Army headquarters that served as a command post beneath Shuri-jo Castle here during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa. As a ...

Jiro Akimaru, former Lieutenant Colonel of the Imperial Japanese Army, in 1991. In a 1991 interview about decision-making leading up to the war, Akimaru said that even within the military ...

Douglas MacArthur's U.S. Army Forces in the Far East, or USAFFE, had held out for four months against the Imperial Japanese Army, while every other island and nation in the Pacific and Southeast ...

Working together to share military secrets and intelligence, Imperial Japan would benefit greatly from their collaboration with Hitler's Germany. In particular, the Japanese took a great interest ...

They all lie in areas that had facilities for Japan's now-defunct Imperial Army — and unexploded wartime bombs have been found there before. Miyazaki Airport is located on land where an airfield ...