He remembers working in the mess halls to pass the time, until one day, the newly turned 18-year-old was drafted into the U.S. Army.

As the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II approaches, only a few veterans of Japan’s brutal war remain. “Never die for Emperor or country,” one advised.

HONG KONG -- At a monument in memory of a group of anti-Japanese aggression martyrs in Lung Kwu Tan in the western part of ...

A Legacy Takes Shape From 1945 to 1957, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Japan evolved from a combat support unit into something more: a driving force for peace, recovery, and transformation.

Enoch Kanaya was 16 years old when he and his family were forced into an Idaho Japanese internment camp. Three years later, he volunteered to join the U.S. Army to fight for his country.

Elmer Calvin Smith, who as an 18-year-old soldier stationed at an Army airfield survived the Japanese surprise attack on Hawaii in 1941, died Friday at age 101. Smith, originally from upstate New ...