Then 55, he was the last of the 'holdouts' – the name given to the small band of Japanese soldiers who battled on long after the war, refusing to believe reports of Emperor Hirohito's admission ...

A memorial service was held for Japanese soldiers who perished in ferocious fighting while defending the Pacific island ...

By June 1945, Japanese troops deployed to Okinawa had been practically wiped out. But some soldiers, as well as Okinawans, hid out in the mountains in the north. Yasumoto was held in a detention ...

Hiroo Onoda - The holdout Japanese soldier who refused to believe that Japan had surrendered. Loyal servant of the Emperor, he kept true and faithful to his orders to never surrender and to keep ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako are considering a visit to Iwoto Island in April to pay respects to the victims ...

He learned that his own father, a Japanese soldier, died during World War II when Japan invaded China and turned northeast China into a puppet Manchuria state. In 1945, the year Ran was born ...

Deep within the mountains of Gifu Prefecture, in a small farming village hidden away from the fast-paced city life, the family of a fallen Japanese soldier eagerly waited for the return of a ...

Helena Pagano’s great-grandfather was the last Alaska Native chief of a remote island in the Bering Sea, closer to Russia than ...

The Imperial Household Agency is considering a visit by Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako to the island of Iwo Jima in ...

(Mainichi/Tamiko Kobayashi) CHIBA -- A message of friendship apparently sent to an Imperial Japanese Army lieutenant who served in the Philippines during World War II from a Filipino soldier he ...