While Okuda, among many other Nisei, complied with the evacuation orders, one of his peers, Gordon Hirabayashi, famously ...

Sergeant David Akui walked along Waimanalo Beach on the morning of Dec. 8, 1941, and spotted what he thought was a sea turtle ...

Japanese Americans during World War II were closed — two months after Japan surrendered to the Allied Forces. Two women, who were children at the time, recount to CNN’s Stephanie Elam how their ...

YOKOHAMA, Japan — On the 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II, the names of more than 1,000 troops who died as prisoners of war were read aloud Tuesday during a memorial ceremony at ...

FUKUOKA, Japan — Nearly 80 years after they were captured and killed in the final days of World War II, dozens of U.S. airmen were honored Friday with a solemn ceremony that also reckoned with the ...

The Tokyo Trials prosecuted Japan’s top military and political leaders for atrocities committed during World War II. Yet, several high-ranking figures responsible for some of the worst crimes escaped ...

TOKYO — As Japan's defeat marking the end of WWII nears its 80th anniversary, and some events fade from living memory, history is hardly consigned to books. It lives on in unhealed wounds, ...

A famed Japanese destroyer sunk by U.S. torpedoes during a pivotal battle in World War II has been discovered on the floor of the Pacific Ocean more than 80 years after it sank, an exploration team ...

British military established Chattogram War Cemetery to bury, honor soldiers killed in action - Anadolu Ajansı ...

Hideo Shimizu L visits the Exhibition Hall of Evidences of Crime Committed by Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Aug. 13, 2024. After a 79-year ...