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.

The history of Japanese dive bombers during World War II is often overshadowed by the dramatic successes of American air ...

But since 1994, something has been killing off the akoyas of Ago Bay, the heart of Japan's cultured-pearl business, and elsewhere in the country. Experts attribute the initial oyster deaths in ...

Throughout most of this century, the Japanese dominated the cultured-pearl industry. The Chinese were the first to culture a product from freshwater mussels, though their centuries-old Buddhas are ...

John J. Pershing, commander-in-chief of the A.E.F. The United States fleet steamed from Pearl Harbor Sunday after a Japanese dive bomber, torpedo plane and parachute raid on the great American ...

On Dec. 8, 1941, (Japan time) 83 years ago today, the military of Japan launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. What kind of thoughts passed through the minds of the people of this country on ...

JAKARTA -- Yustinus Mario Tenggara is upbeat about his family's pearl farming and trading business ... as demand rises -- mainly from China and Japan. "China, with its vast population and a ...