TOKYO (AP) — Until recently, the location of executed wartime Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo's remains was one of World War II's biggest mysteries in the nation he once led. Now, a Japanese ...

Eighty years after the end of World War II, descendants of once-opposing national leaders gathered in Hiroshima to discuss ...

ALBANY — John J. Wilpers Jr., a Capital Region native and the last surviving member of the U.S. Army intelligence unit that captured former Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo after World War II, has ...

It took 75 years for a disgraced family in Japan to finally find peace. Last month, the remains of Hideki Tojo, the man who served as Japan’s prime minister for most of World War II, was approximately ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — John J. Wilpers Jr. went decades without publicly revealing details about his international headline-making exploits at the end of World War II, a string of silence befitting ...

ALBANY — John J. Wilpers Jr., the last surviving member of the Army intelligence unit that captured former Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo after World War II, has died at 93. Wilpers, a Saratoga ...

TOKYO – Japanese World War II leader Hideki Tojo wanted to keep fighting even after U.S. atomic bombs destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, accusing surrender proponents of being “frightened,” a newly ...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- As a young man of 25, John Wilpers was a member of the 308th Counter Intelligence Corps when he helped capture Japanese Gen. Hideki Tojo, who served as prime minster from 1941 to ...

Japanese World War II leader Hideki Tojo wanted to keep fighting even after U.S. atomic bombs destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, accusing surrender proponents of being “frightened,” a newly released ...

On August 15, 1945, World War II ended with the surrender of Japan. American troops were moved quickly to Japan to act as an army of occupation. The Newark Advocate reported in early September that ...

TOKYO >> Until recently, the location of executed wartime Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo’s remains was one of World War II’s biggest mysteries in the nation he once led. Now, a Japanese ...