(MENAFN- Asia Times) In a race similar to the Anglo-German naval buildup before World War I, the US, Japan and China are ... of large surface warships in the Pacific comes as regional navies ...

Also known as Mighty Mo or Big Mo, the USS Missouri was the site where World War II officially ended. She participated in numerous battles in the Pacific ... The Richelieu[c] was a French ...

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

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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 ...