For Capt. David R. Sablan Jr., receiving one of Japan's highest military honors carries a weight that extends far beyond his ...

TOKYO — A serving of wasabi can be its own punishment, but rarely for two. A Japanese officer has been suspended for a month for forcing a subordinate soldier, who was caught dozing, to eat the strong ...

Eighth Army had the privilege of hosting officers from the Republic of Korea Army and Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force this week as part of the annual Trilateral Junior Officer Exchange Symposium.

Hiroo Onoda, an Imperial Japanese Army officer who remained at his jungle post on an island in the Philippines for 29 years, refusing to believe that World War II was over, and returned to a hero’s ...

Since 1994, the U.S. Army and the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force have annually conducted Rising Thunder, an ...

Every now & then high Japanese Army officers explode with the statement that “our peasantry are so poor they are eating grass!” In some parts of Japan at some seasons this is true, but in all parts of ...

Parliamentary government replaced feudalism in Japan in 1890. The new system creaked along until 1932 when Japanese Army officers put an end to party government by killing Ki Inukai, the last party ...