Perhaps the most famous recent inmate at the Tokyo Detention House, ex-Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn, is no longer resident, but the prison has thrown open its doors hoping to answer critics. The facility ...

Janet Clement and her family have waited almost 80 years to bring home the remains of her uncle Sgt. Harry Younge, a Copiague native who was among 62 U.S. airmen killed in a Tokyo prison fire at the ...

Dozens of American military prisoners of war died in Tokyo amid the U.S. firebombing of Japan as World War II reached a crescendo in the Pacific, and later their commingled remains were buried in the ...

Families of veterans who died in a Tokyo military prison fire in 1945, including a North Dakotan, are hopeful their loved ones' remains can finally be brought home. Lon Enerson holds a photo of his ...

Two Westmoreland County airmen who survived the loss of their B-29 bombers during separate World War II missions over Japan were among POWs who perished 80 years ago when the military prison where ...

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TOKYO -- Tokyo prosecutors are seeking a two-year prison sentence for Greg Kelly, the former Nissan director indicted alongside former Chairman Carlos Ghosn for alleged financial misconduct.

The main gate of what used to be Tokyo’s Nakano Prison now stands in a new location without a brick being dropped. Nakano Ward, which owns the plot occupied by the former prison, completed the work of ...