The mother of a U.S. Navy sailor who survived a direct hit to his sleeping berth during a collision at sea said her son kept diving to try to save his shipmates until the flooded berth began running out of air pockets, while others ...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who will visit Pearl Harbor with U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday, wasn't even born when then-Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida went there just six years after Japan's surrender, by himself and feeling awkward. Yoshida is best remembered for signing the San ...

Seventy-five years after a Japanese admiral led the attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, the mayor of his hometown joined his Honolulu counterpart to mark the anniversary — as friends. Nagaoka Mayor Tatsunobu Isoda lay flowers at the main memorial event Wednesday ...

Coping with the vast amounts of groundwater flowing into the broken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant — which then becomes irradiated and seeps back out — has become such a problem that the country is building a ¥35 billion "ice wall" into the ground ...

Lawyer Hiroyuki Kawai stands out in Japan, a nation dominated by somber dark suits: When not in a courtroom, he often wears colorful shirts and crystal-covered animal pins. He is a noh dancer, a tenor and, of late, a filmmaker. His ride is a ...

Nuclear decontamination workers — many from the margins of society with no skills or family ties — make up the bottom of the caste-like subcontractor system.

In Japan, where communal ties to local Buddhist temples are fading, families have in recent years been able to go online to find a monk to perform funerals and other rites. But when Amazon Japan allowed a provider to offer Obo-san bin, or Mr. Monk ...

For Mohammed, the perils of staying in Damascus were driven home when a sniper's bullet whizzed past his head while he and his cousins were on his roof, watching the Syrian air force bomb rebel forces. The same roof was where Mohammed and his lifelong ...

Five American veterans who took part in the firebombing of Japan during World War II saw photos of charred bodies and leveled homes Wednesday at a museum dedicated to the victims, and said the outcome on the ground of their missions was awful. Fiske Hanley ...

They drift into seas near Japan by the dozens every year, ghostly wrecked ships thought to come from impoverished North Korea. Japanese authorities said Tuesday they are investigating nearly a dozen wooden boats that were found off the northwestern coast over the past month and ...