In a poignant act of reconciliation and remembrance, efforts are underway to exhume the remains of 24 Japanese soldiers ...

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

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

Australia, Japan and the US on Sunday committed to closer military cooperation in training their forces, agreeing to the ...

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 ...

While they no longer hold monetary value, they serve as important historical artifacts from World War II. A representative ...

The “Dancing Mouse”—the Clemson-class destroyer more formally known as the USS Edsall—and its more-than-200 servicemen went ...

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

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

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

The USS Edsall, a 314-foot destroyer sunk by Japanese forces in 1942, was known as "the dancing mouse" for its ability to ...