TOKYO (AP) — U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Saturday praised American-Japanese friendship and trust while ...

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

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

Japan is Hegseth's second stop after the Philippines on his first Asia trip ... The 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima is best known for the photo by The Associated Press’ Joe Rosenthal showing six ...

In this photo provided by the Iwo Jima Association of America, U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth greets veterans including Charles Cram, Hegseth is shaking hands with, a former Marine ...

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 ...

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 ...

Before he passed, former Texas Tech Professor Bill Pasewark recalled seeing "things that stay with you forever" on Iwo Jima during World War II.