Eighty-two years after the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, Naomasa Iwasa reflected on how his uncle was posthumously honored as a war god in Japanese propaganda. “It’s important to ...

On Oct. 25, 1944, the Imperial Japanese Navy mounted the first organized ... The fallen kamikaze pilots were treated as “War Gods.” Their wills were read out on the radio.

Takamatsu Gushiken turns on a headtorch and enters a cave buried in Okinawa’s jungle. He gently runs his fingers through the gravel until two pieces of bone emerge. These are from the ...