U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth praised Saturday the friendship and trust that his country and Japan have developed.

Over 80,000 Marines, soldiers, and sailors from our two countries fought at Iwo Jima. More than 26,000 died here. Today, we ...

A handful of retired Marines — all in the late 90s or over 100 — joined Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Japan’s Prime ...

The Department of Defense has removed the page from its website that celebrated the Pima Indian officer who appeared in the ...

In early 2025, the U.S. Department of Defense removed at least two web pages related to Ira Hayes, a Native American veteran ...

The purge, which also targeted multiple webpages about women and LGBTQ+ service members, highlights how aggressively military ...

The tiny island of Iwo Jima in the Pacific Ocean lies around 1,250 kilometres (780 miles) from Tokyo and was the scene of ...

Just a couple of years after the Second World War, John Wayne starred in Sands of Iwo Jima, a movie reenacting it. At 42, the ...

Like many of the prolonged battles waged during the last year of World War II, the fighting on Iwo Jima resulted in the ...

who became the first serving Japanese prime minister to attend the joint Iwo Jima memorial. The 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima is best known for the photo by The Associated Press’ Joe Rosenthal showing ...

The Pentagon said that the page and others, which were removed under the Trump administration’s wide-ranging crackdown on ...