Shortly after the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo in April of 1942, the Japanese began planning for a decisive battle in the vicinity of Midway, to take place in June. The Coral Sea operation in May was ...

The Battle of Midway unfolded over four days in June 1942, some 1,100 miles west of Hawaii, six months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The war would drag on for another three years ...

Unfurl the sails and load the cannons! These naval war movies blasted intrigue, suspense, and action on the high seas across ...

Covered in cloying grime, Toshiko Kido kneels down to scrape away at the mud and fist-sized limestone blocks that hold an overturned Japanese military vehicle firmly in place. Using a trowel and a ...

When Pearl Harbor came into view, black smoke ... desperately needed by Japan. As the war spread across the Pacific, he flew support missions during the battle for Wake Island just after Pearl ...

Thousands of albatrosses and other endangered species at a wildlife sanctuary north-west of Hawaii have been killed by the tsunami which devastated Japan, US officials say. Thousands of petrels ...

Two months after the U.S. defeated Japan at the Battle of Midway in June 1942, the U.S. Marines kicked off their Pacific island-hopping campaign. Their first target was Guadalcanal, an island some ...

Conversely, Japan learned about developments in the Yuan dynasty from the same sources. The standard view of the Battle of Bun’ei is that the Yuan forces attempted to take the kegosho ...

The fraudster had lied to him saying that all hotels and trains in the national capital were shut owing to heavy protests. Instead of going to Varanasi, the foreign national was dropped midway by ...