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 ...

During World War II, a Japanese pilot crashed into the USS Missouri. The ship's captain, William Callaghan, ordered a military burial for the pilot. This act of compassion is remembered today.

Japan launched a suicide attack campaign as a last-ditch measure to push U.S. forces back late in the war, when it was hopelessly losing. The Imperial Navy founded the Kamikaze Tokko Tai ...

I was researching for facts and dates to write about the 82-day brutal battle to capture Okinawa from the Imperial Japanese Army. In 1945 Easter Sunday was April 1, no joke. It was also D-Day for the ...

U.S. Marines perform a rifle salute on board the Battleship Missouri ... on the USS Missouri and subsequent burial at sea of the Japanese pilot, Friday, April 11, 2025, in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

NEW YORK and LONDON – April 10, 2025 – Salute, a lifecycle data center services company, will acquire Keysource Group, a European provider of data center and critical environment solutions, and ...

Deadline approaching fast for this amazing opportunity! The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) has issued their final call for their Short-Term Pre/postdoctoral Research Fellowships.

Today, I salute Navy Veteran Brian O’Malley. At the age of 5, Brian knew he wanted to be a pilot, more specifically, a fighter pilot on an aircraft carrier. That’s exactly what he did – first ...

TOKYO: The Emperor and Empress have begun their “memorial trips” to pay their respects to the war dead in various parts of Japan ... nature of peace. The Imperial couple has visited Iwoto ...

Teramoto’s father, Yasuo, who belonged to a unit of the Imperial Japanese Army, died on the island. His mother raised five children, including Teramoto, after the end of the war. “I believe the ...