CHIKUZEN, Fukuoka Prefecture--A full-size replica of the rarest of Japan’s World War II fighter planes, the Shinden interceptor, has gone on display at the Tachiarai Peace Memorial Museum here.

TOKYO--Japan said its warplanes used flares to warn a Russian reconnaissance aircraft to leave northern ... seized from Japan at the end of World War II. The feud has prevented the two countries ...

A World War II airman who was taken captive by Japanese forces and died in a prison fire after his plane was shot down has been accounted for, military officials said Wednesday.

With its forward-swept wings and radical design, the Kyushu J7W Shinden was unlike anything ... Discover the story behind Japan’s rarest fighter concept. Vance in Greenland: ‘We do not think ...

355 Japanese kamikaze aircraft struck the armada of Allied ships supporting the invasion. By the end of the war, 36 ships were sunk and another 368 damaged, according to the museum. Some 4,000 ...

In 1944 alone, the United States built more planes than the Japanese did from 1939 to 1945. By the end of the war, more than half of all industrial production in the world would take place in the ...