Ogata, an infantry officer with 22 years in the JGSDF, is the vice inspector general, Ground Staff Office. The path for Ogata’s attendance at TIGS started in 2019, when his predecessor was ...

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 ...

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, ...

An 18-year-old army trainee shot three fellow soldiers at a firing range on a Japanese army base Wednesday, killing two of them, officials said.

The war in the Pacific may have ended on Sept. 2, 1945, for just about everyone, but for Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer Hiroo Onoda, the conflict persisted for nearly three decades.

An 18-year-old army trainee shot three fellow soldiers at a firing range on a Japanese army base Wednesday, killing two of them, officials said.

Hiroo Onoda was a Japanese intelligence officer during World War II, stationed on a small island in the Philippines. When the Japanese army evacuated, Onoda stayed and fought for 29 more years ...

Only the Meiji would know. Firm in this conviction a spruce file of puzzled Japanese Army officers rode out from Tokyo one dawn last week to a pungent park of pine and camphor trees. They crossed a ...

An account, by a General Staff officer, of the plans and activities of the Japanese Army High Command in the Pacific War (the Japanese edition, "Taiheiyo Senso Rikusen Gaishi," was published in 1951).

Arthur Harari's film dramatizes the true story of a Japanese officer who continued the fight for 29 years after the Imperial Army’s surrender in World War II.