Ogata, an infantry officer with 22 years in the JGSDF, is the vice inspector general, Ground Staff Office. The path for Ogata’s attendance at TIGS started in 2019, when his predecessor was ...

A Japanese officer will be suspended for a month for forcing another soldier to eat wasabi. Subscribe. ... The Army wants to train soldiers to shave — those who can’t cut it could get kicked out.

TORII STATION, Okinawa – A U.S. Army officer was recognized for rescuing three people from a riptide at a popular Okinawa dive spot in an episode that apparently killed a well-known Japanese ...

A Japanese police officer died in an apparent suicide after being found shot in a restroom at the prime minister's office in central Tokyo early Friday, investigators said. The 25-year-old man of ...

Strange Stories of WWII, Hiroo Onoda was a Japanese intelligence officer in the Imperial Japanese Army, who refused to surrender until decades after World War II had ended. Rudd’s surprise ...

The Imperial Japanese Army was victorious early on in the Pacific theatre. As the war progressed and the situation became more desperate for the army, Japanese soldiers started to use more ...

The war in the Pacific may have ended on Sept. 2, 1945, for just about everyone, but for Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer Hiroo Onoda, the conflict persisted for nearly three decades.

On December 5, 1943, warnings came in of a massive combined air raid Japanese Army and Naval air forces. The Japanese forces this time adopted a different strategy – attacking in broad daylight in ...