George Takei was among the tens of thousands of Japanese-Americans on the West Coast whom President Franklin Roosevelt ordered removed to inland camps after Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.

About 800 members of the D.C. National Guard have been deployed to sites across Washington, with early appearances at Union Station and on the National Mall.

U.S. service members and families on Okinawa have a new attraction to check out: Junglia Okinawa, a jungle-themed amusement park designed to boost tourism in the northern part of the island, recently opened in Nakijin near Yambaru National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Eltville am Rhein invites visitors to slow down, have a glass or two of wine and stroll through centuries of history along the banks of the Rhine River.

Eighty years after Navy hospital corpsman Vernon “Monk” Martin was killed in the Battle of Okinawa, his name has been added to the Cornerstone of Peace monument.

Nominations are open for the American Humane Society’s annual Hero Dog Awards — and this year, military working dogs can be nominated.

The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force held its 67th annual live-fire exercise near Mount Fuji.

A steady drizzle accompanied the USS George Washington as the aircraft carrier steamed out of Tokyo Bay and began its first patrol since returning to Japan last year.

Soldiers with the 101st Airborne Division were part of a convoy of vintage World War II vehicles weaving through back roads near Carentan, France, where American paratroopers fought just days after the D-Day landings.

The Japanese police’s elite motorcycle unit known as the “White Angels” recently helped teach motorcycle safety to U.S. sailors at Yokosuka Naval Base.