Hundreds of American prisoners of war had spent nearly three years starving in a Japanese camp in the Philippines, and in the first weeks of February 1945, they were finally on their way home. Their ...

On February 15, 1942, General Arthur Percival, commander-in-chief of British forces in Malaya, surrendered to Tomoyuki Yamashita, a general in the Imperial Japanese Army. Singapore subsequently fell ...

Each photo has a story,” Yoko Dazely says. Yoko, 90, is a former local-national employee who worked as a typist at the Army Audit Agency Office and ...

Dating back to the days of sailing vessels and piracy on the high seas, the intimidating black flag with a white skull and ...

TOKYO (AP) — It's officially named the World Baseball Classic. But for the Group C games in Japan, simply call it the world according to Shohei Ohtani. Ohtani's life-size image is all over the Tokyo ...

DPAA has commenced a multiyear mission to account for Americans lost in the WWII sinking of a Japanese prisoner transport ship in the Philippines.

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Heavy snowfall hit a wide swath of Japan on Sunday, particularly in the west and along the Sea of Japan coast, while central Tokyo was lightly blanketed. The snowfall disrupted ...

Today's Nintendo Switch Partner Direct has revealed a new exclusive for Switch 2 — bizarre-looking dinosaur survival game Tokyo Scramble. While a trailer shown during the Partner Direct focused on ...

Investors pushed Tokyo's benchmark Nikkei 225 index above 57,000 points for the first time following Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's resounding victory in a snap parliamentary election (Kazuhiro NOGI) ...

Our Job in Japan was a United States military training film made in 1945, shortly after World War II. It is the companion to the more famous Your Job In Germany. The film was aimed at American troops ...