Emperor Naruhito to meet president, lay flowers at memorial dedicated to Japanese prisoners captured by Soviet Union and sent ...

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The U.S. West Coast-based tanker transited the Pacific and conducted aerial refueling with Misawa Air Base's F-16 fighter ...

The Japanese government is taking uncomfortable steps to prepare its citizens for a possible future war that its military ...

The Battle of Okinawa was the bloodiest fight in the Pacific theater in World War II, with tens of thousands killed across ...

The Japanese government plans to begin subsidising long-term evacuation facilities in the Sakishima archipelago, at the ...

The United States was dragged unwillingly into World War II by the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. It was part of Japan’s wider plan to dominate the entire Asia ...

After World War I, ... Japan’s presence in the Pacific island countries will further weaken,” Kurosaki said. But, he added, Japan should be moving forward carefully.

The two Chinese carriers currently in the western Pacific employ the older “ski-jump” launch method for aircraft, with a ramp at the end of a short runway to assist planes taking off. China’s first ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako on Monday made a rare visit to the tiny Pacific island of Iwo Jima to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. The Japanese island, around ...