With over 4,900 casualties and nearly as many wounded, the Battle of Okinawa was the U.S. Navy’s costliest fight during World War II. Japanese aircraft sank 32 U.S. Navy ships, but the Coronis ...

Now, she focuses on confronting the resurrection of the Alien Enemies Act — a measure not deployed since World War II, when it devastated her family and thousands of other Japanese Americans ...

More than 120 teachers have come from around the country to be immersed in every aspect of Japanese American history, including World War II incarceration and the post-war fight for civil rights.

Popularity grew and by the early 21st century, production for a global market was centered in Japan and the southern United States. During World War II, Japan was cut off as a supplier ...

Opening in post-World War II Japan, when the country was experiencing rapid economic growth, Kokuho follows a man born into a yakuza family and then taken in by a Kabuki theater actor. It features ...

U.S. presidents have invoked the law only three times before — during the War of 1812, World War I and World War II, when it was used to incarcerate people of Japanese, German and Italian descent.

Listen to Story In the aftermath of World War II, Japan was at a crossroads. Cities were in ruins, industries were lying in fragments, the pockets of citizens of Japan were empty. But from all this ...

A Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball on April 11, 1945, during the Battle of Okinawa. The suicide attack instantly killed the pilot, but ...

By the early 21st century, production for a global market was centered in Japan and the southern United States. During World War II, Japan was cut off as a supplier, resulting in increased value as ...

It happened in the Philippines (then an American colony) during the early days of World War II, when the Japanese invaded the islands after attacking Pearl Harbor. Wainwright became the top United ...

1941—only months before Japan officially entered WWII. Japan’s B1-type submarines were among the largest and most advanced of their time, reflecting Japan’s focus on offensive naval operations.

Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako on Monday paid their respects to the war dead on Iwoto Island in the Pacific, the site of a fierce World War II battle between the United States and Japan, ...