Access these resources as a member - it's free! Author Eri Hotta talked about Japan in 1941. She discussed Japan's war with China in the years leading up to this time. She described the conditions in the country including the food rationing system and the ...

Imperial Japan launched a devastating Sunday morning surprise attack on the U.S. Navy and other military assets at Pearl Harbor, rousing a "sleeping giant" and thrusting an enraged America into World War II, on this day in history, Dec. 7, 1941. "For ...

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, “a date which will live in infamy,” declared President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, triggered a congressional declaration of war against the Empire of Japan the next day. That monumental decision ...

On Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese Petty Officer 1st Class Shigenori Nishikaichi, crash-landed his A6M2 Zero fighter on Niihau after participating in the attack on Pearl Harbor. Six days later he was able to acquire weapons and take hostages on the island.

Jimmy Kimmel somehow found something “we should be grateful” about when it comes to President Donald Trump’s cringe-inducing meeting with Japan’s first-ever female Prime Minister. The U.S. president hosted Japanese leader Sanae Takaichi in the Oval Office on Thursday,