Lt. Gen. Tadamichi Kuribayashi arrived on Iwo Jima in June 1944. Over the next eight months, he built one of the most elaborate defense systems in the Pacific, which would lead to one of the costliest ...

And the United States’ vested interest in its allies’ security offered assurance to Japan and other countries that they would be protected if conflict came to their shores. National security leaders ...

Sgt. Ross F. Gray carried a satchel charge though a minefield while under heavy Japanese fire. What followed became one of the most extraordinary individual actions of the Pacific War, earning Gray ...

KARANGANYAR, Indonesia – With Japan’s bus industry facing a serious shortage of workers, hopes are high for Indonesian bus drivers who have obtained a “specified skilled worker” visa. At a ...

Japanese prime minister Sanae Takaichi said Tokyo would not shy away from a conflict with China over Taiwan, outlining how the country could respond to such a crisis. Ms Takaichi appeared to walk back ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ms Takaichi appeared to walk back her earlier remarks that Japan could respond militarily if China moved to take the island by ...

All the open spaces around the great naval airfield at Surabaya, Java, are set with bamboo stakes, about waist high, their tops whittled razor-sharp. A visiting journalist recently asked what they ...

After the defeat at Midway, Japan relied on its decades old secret weapon: an unmatched doctrine of night naval combat, with elite lookouts who could see in the dark. When US intelligence discovered a ...

A Ukrainian who fled his homeland following Russia's full-scale invasion has become the first from his country to win an elite-level sumo championship in Japan. Danilo Yavhushyshyn, who now competes ...