The crude assortment of fighting tools used by the Japanese during World War II give clues of an unprepared and unmatched ...

Japanese lawmakers are close to a breakthrough that will ensure the years of strife and panic that plagued the Imperial Palace will never happen again.

Japan's royal family wrapped up a two day visit to Okinawa Thursday, where they paid respects to the victims of a World War II-era Japanese evacuation ship that was torpedoed by a U.S. submarine.

U.S. Army veteran Chris Dorsey returns a WWII good luck flag to a fallen Japanese soldier’s family, bringing closure and unity across generations.

Japan said it would not fund a UN women's rights committee and suspended a member's visit over calls for the nation to change its male-only imperial succession rules.

The weather-beaten flag bears the names of men who endured the infamous Bataan Death March and rode the "hell ships" to Japan, defying the odds by their survival. They lived long enough, at least ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and his family greeted throngs of New Year’s well-wishers from a balcony window at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Thursday. Some shouted “banzai ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and his family greeted throngs of New Year’s well-wishers from a balcony window at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Thursday.

David Bonner, the Air University historian responsible for coordinating the repatriation, met with Japanese Col. Hirokazu Honda, an Air War College student, to translate the information on the flag.

The grandson of a World War II veteran tracked down the Japanese family connected to a flag his grandfather brought back from war. "I was always fascinated by it as a child," said the grandson.

OSAKA -- A ceremony was held at a shrine in this western Japan city to return a Japanese flag belonging to a former Imperial Japanese Army officer, ki ...

The adoption system refers to the idea that male members of the Imperial Family could adopt people into the line. But as of now, this is the full Japanese line of succession: ...