SARATOGA SPRINGS -- John J. Wilpers Jr. went decades without publicly revealing details about his international headline-making exploits at the end of World War II, a string of silence befitting a ...

Every morning for the last three months, Yuko Tojo has prayed at a war shrine for Japan’s fallen soldiers — including her grandfather, Gen. Hideki Tojo, the executed World War II premier who ordered ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It took 75 years for a disgraced family in Japan to finally find peace. Last month, the remains of Hideki Tojo, the man who served ...

In the Tokyo suburb of Tamagawa, the afternoon of Sept.11, 1945 was sultry. A sweating pack of Allied war correspondents waited restlessly outside the neat little house of General Hideki (“The Razor”) ...

The location of the remains of the wartime Japanese prime minister had been a puzzle. Now, documents reveal that U.S. forces secretly scattered his ashes into the Pacific Ocean. By Livia Albeck-Ripka ...