A fire in southwestern Japan damages 170 homes and forces evacuations

Firefighters and army helicopters battled a fire that burned through old wooden houses in a fishing town in southwestern ...

Japan's biggest fire in nearly 50 years ravages 170 buildings, kills one

A fire ripped through more than 170 buildings and killed one person in a southern Japanese coastal city on Wednesday, with ...
CNN

‘Utterly foolish’: 12 hours before World War II ended, the US firebombed this Japanese city

Eighty years later, the scars of the last American firebombing of a Japanese city remain — on the skin of a man who still lives mere yards from where hundreds died, on the surface of a statue of a ...
Military.com

The Army Bombers That Attacked the Japanese Fleet and Helped Turn the Tide at Midway

During the Battle of Midway, a crippled U.S. Army B-26 bomber flew so close over Japan’s flagship Akagi that its crew ...
The Gazette

Japan commemorates 80 years since atomic bombing of Hiroshima

Japan and the world commemorated the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, inaugurating a new era of human history. At 8:15 a.m. on Aug. 6, 1945, the American B-29 bomber known as the ...