With the Allies closing in, Germany and Imperial Japan launched spectacularly daring last-ditch missions to save themselves ...

Tension between Japan and China has escalated over the new Japanese leader's suggestion Tokyo could intervene militarily if ...

More than 14 U.S. Army and Marine divisions never landed on X-Day of Operation Downfall, the planned invasion of Japan to end ...

China on Friday said that Chinese people and the international community "will not allow" Japan to "go back to the path of ...

During World War II, Japan was exceptionally innovative in aviation. The nation produced the infamous Mitsubishi A6M "Zero," which devastated the Allies in the early phases of the conflict, and other ...

Aerial warfare historian Yusuke Orita was thrilled when his decade-long effort to collect and analyze U.S. military war film ...

Bockscar, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, is housed at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. The bomb was dropped on August 9, 1945, three days after the ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's recent wrong remarks on China's Taiwan region have triggered a renewed round of ...

Japan, a U.S. ally, has used civilian airports and seaports for military training drills during a large-scale war game as it prepares for a potential conflict with China. The Japan Self-Defense Forces ...

NASMAIN copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Warhawk and Nate Down, Mariveles volcano, Bataan Peninsula, Philippines -- Admiral Yamamoto's grand scheme -- Tora Tora Tora! -- ...