The National Archives of Japan has disclosed to researchers the names of members of biological warfare units that the former Imperial Japanese Army had stationed in China. Researchers hope the ...

The Imperial Japanese Army began with massive ambition and early victories—but as WWII dragged on, it turned to extreme sacrifice and brutal tactics. U.S. warns Americans in Middle East as ...

Japanese group holds exhibition on wartime chemical weapons, urging Japan to confront its WWII history and reflect on past crimes.Beijing, China, June 14, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A Japanese civil ...

the other involved Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Department of the Imperial Japanese Army, also known as Unit 731, which was established in Harbin (then known as Manchuria), Northeast China ...

The now-defunct Imperial Japanese Army began building the railroad in 1942 as a supply route to the Burmese front. Experts say the army mobilized over 200,000 people, including British and other ...

The Japanese Imperial Army mobilized civilians in ground battles with the result that one in four residents perished. In a survey of prefectural residents by The Asahi Shimbun in 1971 ...

Japan's imperial family honored the war dead in Okinawa on Wednesday, where the last major battle of World War II occurred 80 ...

Isoroku Yamamoto, the Japanese Marshal Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN ... about it,” replied the watch officer of the U.S. Army Air Force 78th Pursuit Squad­ron.

who were forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces during the Second World War. Other replicas of the work can now be found in Japan, US, Australia and Germany, where they ...

Copernicus The Woleai runway was built by Imperial Japanese forces during World War II, but has long fallen into disrepair due to lack of funding. The project was launched with fanfare Monday in a ...

The army advanced quickly and occupied Peking ... By 1939, the war was in stalemate; Chinese Communist and Nationalist forces continued to resist. Yet Japanese imperial ambitions were undimmed. In ...