TOKYO — A serving of wasabi can be its own punishment, but rarely for two. A Japanese officer has been suspended for a month for forcing a subordinate soldier, who was caught dozing, to eat the strong ...

SAGAMI GENERAL DEPOT, Japan — A soldier in the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force became one of the first Japanese troops to earn the U.S. Army’s Expert Soldier Badge after a five-day test of physical ...

Hiroo Onoda, an Imperial Japanese Army officer who remained at his jungle post on an island in the Philippines for 29 years, refusing to believe that World War II was over, and returned to a hero’s ...

Hiroo Onoda, an Imperial Japanese Army officer who remained at his jungle post on an island in the Philippines for 29 years, refusing to believe that World War II was over, and returned to a hero s ...

This undated file photo shows an interior view of a prisoner of war (POW) camp barrack restored according to the real scene ...