An estimated 240,000 people were killed or went missing in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Eighty years later, the ...

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

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U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth described Japan on Sunday as indispensable for tackling Chinese aggression and said ...

Iwoto is an isolated island about 1,200 kilometers south of Tokyo. Toward the end of the Pacific War, the Japanese military focused on the island, which was renamed Iwoto in 2007, as a defense ...

joining a war memorial service on Iwoto Island in the Pacific where the two countries engaged in a deadly battle 80 years ago. Hegseth is making his first official visit to Japan following the ...

US Forces Japan would become a “war-fighting headquarters,” he said, a move that “increases our readiness to respond to contingency or crisis, support US operations and help Japan and US ...

The United States, Japan and the Philippines have staged joint naval drills to boost crisis readiness off a disputed South ...

A World War II airman who was taken captive by Japanese forces and died in a prison fire after his plane was shot down has been accounted for, military officials said Wednesday. U.S. Army Air ...

on Saturday as part of his first visit to Japan as defense chief for an event honoring those who died in bloody fighting there 80 years ago during World War II. “The U.S.-Japan alliance shows th ...

It was the largest amphibious invasion of the Pacific War, and its bloodiest battle ... both military and civilian, in what the Japanese considered part of their homeland, were among the key factors ...

The deployment of the USS Shoup and JS Noshiro to Scarborough Shoal represents the strength of the U.S.-Japan-Philippine ...