In the summer of 1944, as Japan launched a desperate bid to turn the tide of war in the Pacific, the formidable aircraft carrier Taiho—the pride of the Imperial Navy—became a prime target for the ...

TOKYO, July 18 (Bernama-Kyodo) -- Japan's former Emperor Akihito has been diagnosed with supraventricular tachycardia, a heart rhythm disorder that causes a rapid heartbeat in the upper chambers of ...