Looking back through history, it’s often difficult to see passed events that have so shaped our modern world. The story of Japan in World War II for example has often left those in the west with an ...

Tyler Smith, a recreation planner from San Francisco, recently climbed a forested mountainside in western Tokyo to honor the ...

On this Memorial Day, we turn to the life and legacy of Yukio Kawamoto. The Japanese-American World War II veteran served his country under almost unthinkable circumstances and then spent a lifetime ...

Over a million tons of unexploded ordnance (UXO) dating back to World Wars I and II rest beneath the surface. From sea mines ...

On Memorial Day, 81 years after 2nd Lt. Thomas V. Kelly Jr. was killed off the coast of New Guinea, and two years after his ...

Eighty years later, thanks to dental and anthropological analysis, the remains of Pvt. Ben Leslie have been accounted for.