From a crumbling pill box in the UK to a derelict rail line in Hawaii, these are the abandoned World War II places that the ...

Many acts of heroism occurred during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, including a remarkable fight by the destroyer escort Samuel B ...

TOKYO — Japan will expand an unprecedented military aid program, the first of its kind since World War II, to help the armed ...

Conservative members of the prime minister's ruling Liberal Democratic Party oppose releasing such a statement.

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

Japanese troops removed and defused an American shell believed to be from World War II from a construction site in Okinawa’s ...

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

Okinawa on Sunday marks the 50th anniversary of its return to Japan on May 15, 1972, which ended 27 years of U.S. rule after one of the bloodiest battles of World War II was fought on the southern ...

The head of Japan's ruling coalition partner on Wednesday urged Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba to issue a fresh war ...

Pfc. Duane Tunnyhill of Omaha was ready to die with his fellow Marines at Iwo Jima. He survived and lived another 80 years to become the last man ...

Born in 1908, she raised four children, ran a family textile factory during World War II, and remained an avid hiker into her 80s. By Martin Fackler Reporting from Tokyo Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese ...

The World War II submarine USS Cobia will temporarily move from its home at the Wisconsin Maritime ... In six war patrols ...