The airfield’s design enables aircraft ... with a population exceeding 15,000 Japanese and Koreans. During World War II, Tinian's strategic location made it a prime target for the U.S. military.

Set to detonate about an hour to a week after impact, a bomb dropped in the later stages of World War II didn't explode ... which was an Imperial Japan Navy airfield. Spontaneous unexploded ...

A Russian team discovered a sprawling bunker complex apparently built by imperial Japanese forces on Etorofu ... by Soviet forces at the end of World War II. The expedition leader likened the ...

Miyazaki Airport is located on land where an airfield for the Imperial Japanese Navy was built in 1943. The US military conducted fierce air raids on it during the war and later captured it.