No war – won or lost – is ever waged without sacrifice. Those sacrifices can be material in the loss of equipment or ...

In the 80 years since Emperor Hirohito announced Japan's surrender, bringing World War II to an end, Tatsukuma Ueno and his ...

On the Pacific front towards the end of World War II, Japan's imperial armed forces launched "kamikaze" attacks, or suicide missions by aircrafts laden with bombs. It was a mad operation with no hope ...

A kamikaze pilot trainee during World War II, he later promoted peace as a grand master of the Japanese tea ceremony.

Spared from flying a suicide mission in World War II, he became a grandmaster of Japan’s venerable tea ceremony and used his ...

A Japanese city's plan to seek UNESCO recognition for its collection of documents related to its role as a launching base for "kamikaze" suicide attacks in the desperate last months of World War ...

Herb Kappel, 99, has seen it all. Serving in the Navy at age 18, he fought in the Pacific Theater, taking down kamikaze planes and eventually witnessing Japan's surrender, marking the end of WWII.

For Memorial Day weekend, the explorers who uncovered the USS Mannert L. Abele, the first American ship sunk by an unusual type of rocket-powered Japanese kamikaze plane, are releasing video and ...

A group of underwater explorers discovered a long-lost sunken World War II Navy warship. The U.S.S. Mannert L. Abele sank off Okinawa in 1945 after being hit by two kamikaze attacks.

Amid the 80th anniversary of World War II’s end comes the death of what is believed to be America’s last surviving ace, Don ...

Genshitsu Sen, a former Kamikaze pilot trainee and grand master of the Japanese tea ceremony, has died at 102. Officials ...