Japan hopes to immortalise its kamikaze pilots - a squad of young men who crashed their aircraft into Allied ships in World War Two - by seeking Unesco World Heritage status for a collection of their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Think of a kamikaze pilot and the image that comes to mind is probably a screaming face obscured by goggles embarking on a death ...

On the 15th of August 1945, the Japanese Emperor Hirohito gave a speech on the radio in which he announced the unconditional surrender of Japan to the Allied powers. Among many nationalistic Japanese, ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: With an even worse fuel and raw-materials situation than Germany, Japan probably would have fared no better. It is a fallacy that Germany was the only nation to develop ...

TOKYO — Genshitsu Sen, a former Kamikaze pilot trainee who later promoted peace as a grand master of the Japanese tea ceremony, has died, officials said Thursday. He was 102. Sen had been hospitalized ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - A film celebrating Japan's wartime "kamikaze" suicide pilots and written by Tokyo's nationalist governor opened in theatres on Saturday, sparking more of a pacifist than a patriotic ...

In Fukuoka Prefecture, at the northern end of the most southerly of Japan’s four big islands, Kyushu, you can learn a lot about kamikaze. Like many island nations, Japan’s historical self-identity was ...

Think of a kamikaze pilot and the image that comes to mind is probably a screaming face obscured by goggles embarking on a death plunge. Or perhaps no face at all and just a fighter plane plowing into ...