On a cloudless day off the Philippines coast, Shigetoshi Kaneko held onto floating debris while adrift, clinging to hope ...

Courageous US pilots of the Navy, Marines, and Air Force clashed with Japan in the skies over Midway, delivering a decisive ...

China seems to be taking the same careful approach to its carrier program as Japan took during the interwar period. If the Battle of the Philippine Sea had played out differently, Japan's navy ...

Jiro Akimaru, former Lieutenant Colonel of the Imperial Japanese Army, in 1991. In a 1991 interview about decision-making leading up to the war, Akimaru said that even within the military ...

Working together to share military secrets and intelligence, Imperial Japan would benefit greatly from their collaboration with Hitler's Germany. In particular, the Japanese took a great interest ...

five instructors from the Ground Self-Defense Force’s Ordnance School and other organizations illustrated the types and structures of shells the Imperial Japanese military utilized for regional ...

7. The ministry will also examine Sendai, Fukuoka and Naha airports, which formerly served as air bases for the imperial Japanese military during the war, where undetonated bombs were found in the ...

Photo taken on Dec 12, 2024 shows the archives of germ-warfare activities conducted by the Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army ... including military sabers, uniforms, medical equipment ...