Vaughn Drake was a 23-year-old member of the Army Corps of Engineers at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, when a large squadron of Japanese military aircraft attacked the U.S. Pacific Fleet there.

On the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, Vaughn Drake was a 23-year-old member of the Army Corps of Engineers at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, when a large squadron of Japanese military aircraft attacked the U.S.

Vaughn P. Drake Jr., a Kentuckian believed to be the oldest survivor of the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, has died at the age of 106, according to his family. Drake passed away on April 7 ...

Shared concerns over China’s growing assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific are pushing Japan and the Philippines ... flashpoints in the region, the South China Sea remains the most critical, given ...

A Newsweek map shows at least six countries in the Western Pacific region are operating ... The second largest F-16 user in the region is South Korea, a key U.S. treaty ally in Northeast Asia ...

(AP Photo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan has confirmed the first death of a national in the massive earthquake that struck Myanmar last month, a senior Japanese Foreign Ministry official said Monday.

Looking down, she saw a Japanese fighter ... collector’s edition out this month, “Pearl Harbor 75: Honor, Remembrance, and the War in the Pacific.” Cornelia Fort’s Interstate Cadet ...

(Mainichi/Takehiko Onishi) The spate of high court rulings in Japan that homosexual individuals being disallowed from having their partnerships legally recognized constitutes a human rights ...