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Inside America’s fire war against Japan in World War II

In the final year of World War II, American forces faced an enemy that refused to fight above ground. Across the Pacific, Japanese troops turned islands into vast underground fortresses, hiding deep ...

‘Torpedo Gang’: Hawaii honors soldiers, survivors of classified WWII attack

Twenty-eight soldiers with the 299th Infantry Battalion were on the Royal T. Frank when it was hit by a torpedo launched by a Japanese submarine in the Alenuihaha Channel.
Stars and Stripes

Hawaii soldiers receive commissions that fate and death denied them during WWII

The Army has posthumously commissioned seven University of Hawaii ROTC cadets of Japanese descent who were killed during ...
Stars and Stripes

Expanded Iron Fist puts US, Japanese troops at more island training sites

U.S. Marines with Battalion Landing Team 2/4, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, and Japan Ground Self-Defense Force soldiers ...

Japanese American soldiers once branded ‘enemy aliens’ promoted posthumously

Seven Japanese American soldiers are being promoted to officer ranks in a solemn ceremony that comes eight decades after they ...
United States Army

More Than Eight Decades Later, UH ROTC Cadets Receive Commissions

U.S. Army Pacific (USARPAC), in partnership with the University of Hawaiʻi (UH), honored seven World War II (WWII) UH Army ...
The Print

Fearing China clash, Japan asks fishermen to avoid flashpoint islands

Ties have deteriorated since Japanese leader Sanae Takaichi angered Beijing in November by commenting on how Tokyo might ...