Restoration work on a metal artifact found in Berlin, Germany, has revealed it to be an "ornately decorated" Japanese sword that possibly dates to the 17th century.

A 94-year-old veteran from southeastern Minnesota plans to return a sword he took from Nagasaki, Japan, as a token of his time during World War II.

Among them was a Japanese sword he’d found on an Okinawa beach in the final days of World War II. It was six months after I first asked Benny if he’d be interested in finding the sword’s owner.

Local News WWII Vet Returns Sword To Japanese Family September 20, 2013 / 5:40 PM CDT / CBS Minnesota LANESBORO, Minn. (WCCO) -- Orvall Amdahl clearly remembers the day his life would be forever ...

NICHINAN, Miyazaki Prefecture—At the age of 99, Joseph Cursor, a former U.S. soldier who lives in Chicago, was running out of time to fulfill a long-held promise.

Robert Kowetz later took a sword during the capture, a piece that the younger Kowetz inherited and still owns today. Unfortunately, condition is a bit questionable, as there is rust toward the end ...

BERLIN, GERMANY—A short sword dated to seventeenth-century Japan was discovered in Berlin in 2022, according to a Live Science report. The Edo-period weapon was found during the excavation of ...

Mysterious highly-decorated Japanese sword discovered in Berlin cellar destroyed during WWII Sword dates to 17th century during Edo period, when country followed a strict policy of self-isolation ...

Mystery shrouds the discovery of a centuries-old samurai sword buried amid Second World War debris in the heart of Berlin. The blade was found under the Molkenmarkt, the city's oldest square, in ...

It is a scene from World War II movies and comic books; seeming fanatical Japanese soldiers charging out of the jungle wielding a “samurai” sword, swinging widely and yelling “banzai.” It ...