The Pentagon has launched one of its largest-ever underwater recovery missions to retrieve American ...

A team of 15 specialist divers dove into waters off the coast of the Philippines last month—initiating a forensic recovery operation that one Pentagon scientist said could take "months or years." ...

Eight decades after the Oryoku Maru was sunk by American bombs, specialist divers are returning to retrieve the 250 men still trapped inside They were killed by American bombs. They were held at ...

MANILA, Philippines -- Japan and the Philippines signed a key defense pact Monday allowing the deployment of Japanese forces for joint drills in the Southeast Asian nation that came under brutal ...

The Japanese began to bomb American bases in the Philippines hours after the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor that launched the United States into World War II. By the spring of 1942, Japanese ...

After a lifetime of searching, Jose Villafuerte this month finally found the Japanese father he lost during the dark years of World War II in the occupied Philippines.

Japanese and Philippine government officials met in Manila on December 3 to discuss arrangements for the basing of Japanese forces in the Philippines and to prepare for an upcoming trilateral maritime ...

Japan occupied all or part of over 20 countries during World War II. The U.S. and its allies liberated many of the Pacific Islands in hard-fought naval and amphibious battles before ending the war ...