The Japanese-American World War II veteran served his country under almost unthinkable circumstances and then spent a lifetime building bridges between the two cultures he called his own.

World War II was raging when I was born in Glasgow, Scotland, to a Scottish-American mother and a Scottish father. I was too young to understand Scotland’s “9/11” experience.

Strange Stories of WWII, Hiroo Onoda was a Japanese intelligence officer in the Imperial Japanese Army, who refused to surrender until decades after World War II had ended.

A U.S. Army colonel’s great-grandson returned a “good luck” flag Wednesday to the family of a Japanese soldier who carried it into battle during World War II.

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Among them was a Japanese sword he’d found on an Okinawa beach in the final days of World War II. It was six months after I first asked Benny if he’d be interested in finding the sword’s owner.

NAHA, Okinawa — Japanese troops removed and defused an American shell believed to be from World War II on Tuesday at a construction site in Okinawa’s capital city. Ten members of the Japan ...

Japanese American civil rights leaders and advocates criticized former President Trump for comparing rioters who breached the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to those held in internment camps during World… ...

A U.S. Army Air Forces bomb finally inflicted its damage on the Japan airport it was dropped on almost 80 years ago. Miyazaki Airport (RJFM), which served as a launch base for Japanese World War ...

An unexploded American bomb from World War II that had been buried at a Japanese airport exploded Wednesday, causing a large crater in a taxiway and the cancellation of more than 80 flights but no ...

Suspected WWII bomb grounds Japanese airport. A US bombshell blast leaves a huge crater at Miyazaki Airport, prompting cancellation of nearly 90 flights.