Off the coast of Japan 80 years ago, a U.S. naval captain ordered his battleship to hold a burial at sea for a kamikaze pilot ...

Once a symbol of rebellion and girlhood, the cartoon cat has become a cultural ambassador—part of Japan’s global soft power strategy to rebrand its image after World War II. To much of the ...

IWO JIMA: Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako on Monday made a rare visit to the tiny Pacific island of Iwo Jima to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. The Japanese ...

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has praised the friendship and trust that his country and Japan have developed while ...

This photo taken in October 2023 shows Ioto Island in the Pacific Ocean. (Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako on Monday paid their respects to the war dead on Ioto ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako have visited the remote island of Ioto to pay their respects to soldiers and civilians who died there in World War Two. The Imperial couple on Monday ...

This judgment was upheld as final by Japan's appellate courts in 2022. All of this is recounted in a new documentary "Black Box Diaries," directed by Ito. The movie is the first by a Japanese ...