"If I can't make it back, I'll be most sorry for you, Tako-chan. But you make sure and do what Mommy tells you, and grow up fast to be a big, strong girl. If you do that, it will make Daddy feel a ...

CHICAGO – The founder of a Chicago hot dog empire thinks he may have a gold tooth that belonged to a Japanese World War II admiral who orchestrated the Pearl Harbor attack and will "do whatever it ...

Astronaut Koichi Wakata of JAXA (the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) was handed over command during a ceremony held onboard the outpost early Sunday morning. Wakata, who has been a flight engineer ...

MOSCOW, July 27. /TASS/. Members of the second expedition to the Kurile island of Matua have discovered ruins of the residence of a Japanese commander and an object resembling a submarine, the Russian ...

TOKYO – Japan’s potent but often over-looked military takes another step onto the world scene when a Japanese commander assumes one of the top posts in a major multi-national exercise scheduled to ...

NEW YORK, Jan. 15 (UPI) --North Korea's Kim Jong Un is "gaining time" as he fine-tunes his nuclear weapon and ballistic missile programs, a Japanese analyst said. During a conversation Monday with ...

Just three months after Pearl Harbor, an Imperial Japanese submarine shelled a California refinery and oilfield near Los Angeles. The shelling caused little damage – but it led to the largest mass ...

On July 28, 1944, the Japanese commander on Guam was killed in action, and the two American invasion forces linked up on Mount Tenjo. Imperial Japanese Army Lt. Gen. Takeshi Takashina was killed by ...