Local children also took part in the harvest at a pear farm in the city. Varieties such as "Hosui," "Akizuki" and "Niitaka" will be shipped through the end of September. Note: Nashi are Japanese ...

The university is cross-breeding Japanese pears with Taiwanese ones grown in subtropical climates to develop varieties that can withstand higher temperatures. Takemura said it takes several years ...

Eighty years after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the first Japanese prisoner of war has been freed from the stigma and reunited with his fellow sailors who piloted midget submarines in an ill-fated ...

David Aiken is a director of Pearl Harbor History Associates. He has spent decades conducting detailed searches for missing American and Japanese airmen from the Pearl Harbor attack.

Seventy-five years ago, hundreds of interned Japanese pearl divers were deported from Australia at the end of World War Two. It largely ended a once-lucrative industry in Queensland’s Torres Strait.