Interestingly, the Nambu wasn’t the *official* issue sidearm of the Imperial Japanese Army, as IJA officers were expected to purchase their own pistols. As for the 8x22mm cartridge, it’s a ...

The Imperial Japanese Army was established following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, and was active until its disbandment in 1945. During its relatively short time, the IJA became synonymous with ...

Jude Danks, 19, has been working with the Japanese Ground Self Defence Forces to practice how to defend against an invading ...

Less than 750 kilometres from Taiwan and home to nearly 30,000 US troops, the Japanese islands of Okinawa would play a ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — At least three U.S. Navy ships and four Marine Corps Ospreys will join an annual amphibious exercise ...

A Chinese man who carried out a knife attack in eastern China last June that wounded a Japanese woman and her child and ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan on Wednesday said it will freeze voluntary funding for a United Nations’ women’s rights panel that called for an end to the country's male-only imperial succession rule.

After police and the nearby bomb squad investigated to the scene, they announced that the weapon was inactive and safe ...

The weather-beaten flag bears the names of men who endured the infamous Bataan Death March and rode the "hell ships" to Japan, defying the odds by their survival. They lived long enough, at least, to ...