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

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.

As Japan’s popularity soars, many travelers want to experience the country beyond the usual crowded hotspots. I’ve been on ...

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

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

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

An island chain in southwest Japan was shaken by an earthquake on Thursday after over 1,000 tremors throughout two weeks.

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

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.

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 ...

As the entire objective of the Pacific campaign was to get close enough to the Japanese home islands to strike, the range of the B-29 was critical in delivering the final blows of World War II.