Japan faced insurmountable odds in WWII against the U.S. due to America's industrial and military supremacy. However, Japan ...

The United States was dragged unwillingly into World War II by the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, ...

The Navy destroyer was sunk in 1942 during World War II, after facing down overwhelming odds and fighting a pitched battle.

On Nov. 12, 1948, a war crimes tribunal in Japan sentenced former premier Hideki Tojo and six other World War II Japanese ...

The USS Edsall was overpowered by a Japanese fleet in the Indian Ocean but fought valiantly to the end, the U.S. Navy said.

Arthur Polacheck was 17 years old and stationed in Okinawa, an island of Japan, as a radio operator for the United States.

Japan has launched the first-ever project to take the remains of soldiers back home, some eight decades after the war. The soldiers had been taken there as prisoners by British forces during World War ...

Grant Ujifusa helped persuade President Ronald Reagan to support reparations for Japanese Americans interned at camps like ...

A treasure trove of 500,000 ceramic coins from WWII, once thought destroyed, has been unearthed in a Japanese warehouse.

Japan's destroyer-turned-aircraft carrier recently concluded sea trials off California that put Lockheed's F-35B to the test.

James Holmes holds the J. C. Wylie Chair of Maritime Strategy at the Naval War College and served on the faculty of the University of Georgia School of Public and International Affairs.