Tomesuke Umeki, an officer in the Imperial Japanese Army, carried the sword with him when he left Takaharu around 1941 for a Japanese-controlled territory during the Pacific War. He traveled from ...

SETOUCHI, Okayama Prefecture--Craftspeople here restoring a Japanese sword for Aung San Suu ... The weapon was donated to an Imperial Japanese Army lieutenant general who was put in charge of ...

COURTESY OF NISHITOKYO CITYThousands of swords and other weapons were ... the World War II era and likely belonged to the Japanese Imperial Army. Grenades, bullets and cannonballs were also ...