Iichi Marumo started competing in his late 80s, after a life spent farming, publishing poetry and volunteering to fly in a ...

Miyazaki Airport served as a base for Japanese kamikaze jets from 1943 till the war ended. That explains why it became a prime military target for US bombers during the WW2 era. So far ...

si=EgDuIj9EuWBlwpWM A kamikaze bomber refers to a Japanese military pilot who deliberately carried out suicide missions ...

Famed actor Hisaya Morishige (1913-2009) worked at a broadcasting station in Xinjing in the former Manchuria during World War II. When Japan’s ... and testament of kamikaze pilots.

There was one certainty about being a kamikaze, he says: “You go, and it’s over.” He survived only because Emperor Hirohito announced Japan’s surrender on the radio as he was his way to ...

Takamatsu Gushiken turns on a headtorch and enters a cave buried in Okinawa’s jungle. He gently runs his fingers through the gravel until two pieces of bone emerge. These are from the ...