School principal Yoshiro Tobo is one of the few people left on his remote Japanese island, where the earth is constantly ...

The crude assortment of fighting tools used by the Japanese during World War II give clues of an unprepared and unmatched ...

The island was once home to 3,000 first- and second-generation Japanese Americans before many were taken to internment camps during World War II.

A remote island in Japan was jolted by more than 900 earthquakes in the span of one week, according to the weather agency, ...

More than 900 earthquakes have shaken a remote and sparsely populated island chain in southern Japan over two weeks, keeping ...

Visits are banned by Russia, which occupies Kunashiri, Etorofu, Shikotan, and the Habomai islets, off Hokkaido ...

Part of the Ogasawara archipelago, Chichijima lays some 150 miles north of Iwo Jima and 500 miles south of the Japanese home islands and is not even the size of New York city’s central park.

The Battle of Okinawa was the bloodiest fight in the Pacific theater in World War II, with tens of thousands killed across both sides.

Accompanied by Missile Destroyers The Japanese Defense Ministry announced that the Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning, accompanied by two missile destroyers, was detected navigating the waters ...

Once polluted and suffering from depopulation, Naoshima has become Japan's hottest contemporary art enclave – and there are signs that life there may be finally rebounding.

Japan’s tenacity in fighting for even small islands the U.S. invaded in the Pacific led to estimates of as many as 900,000 U.S. casualties during a ground invasion of the Japanese home islands ...

Atomic bombing of Japan In 1945 the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan to bring an end to World War II and avoid a hugely costly invasion of the Japanese home islands.