MABALACAT, PHILIPPINES - Even now, 60 years later, it's an arresting sight: a life-size statue of a Japanese kamikaze pilot next to a former U.S. Air Force base. Yet as the Philippines and the ...

The sword had been passed down in the family for generations, and it was actually in the cockpit of Fujita’s plane back in September 1942. He subsequently took it on every flight.

Born in 1928, Ueno was living in Beijing when he enlisted at age 15 and was sent for pilot training in Japanese-occupied ...

Tatsukuma Ueno, 97, a former Japanese army pilot, took the stage at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan in Tokyo to ...

Mitsuo Fuchida, the Japanese pilot who led the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, was inspired to renounce his warrior code and become a Christian evangelist after the war.

A Japanese V-22 Osprey hit the ground during ... The drill was part of Keen Sword, a U.S.-Japan military exercise taking ... U.S. and Japanese pilots were slated to fly Ospreys for the first ...

“Shin gunto,” means “new military sword,” is an example of a mass-produced wartime ceremonial sword designed for general issue to Japanese officers and non-commissioned officers. Often mistakenly ...