For Capt. David R. Sablan Jr., receiving one of Japan's highest military honors carries a weight that extends far beyond his ...

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 ...

The post showed Kaoru Mitoma posing with a young player and a mocked-up soccer card featuring Imperial Japanese Army officer ...

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 ...

Government-issued Japanese language textbook and accompanying handwritten notes, the property of Rosemary Delaney Beckman (1916 — 1999), a civilian codebreaker with the ...