June: Battle of Midway: In what is later seen as the "turning point" of the Pacific war, American carrier aircraft sink all ...

For many on the mainland, the recent rising sun flag incident and controversies like it show a fondness for anime and manga ...

General Macarthur and other senior Army officers, upon his arrival at Atsugi airdrome, near Tokyo, Japan, 30 August 1945. U.S ...

While Putin's Russia or Trump's America have committed numerous acts of sovereignty infringement or similar actions to date, ...

TOKYO — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called Japan on Sunday an “indispensable partner” in deterring growing Chinese assertiveness in the region and announced upgrading the U.S. military command in ...

Tokyo is borrowing Kyiv's battlefield playbook to defend its southwestern islands. The drones may prove the easy part.

August 1945. Japan was approaching the end of a long war.Towns reduced to ashes by air raids. People who had lost their food ...

Japan occupied all or part of over 20 countries during World War II. The U.S. and its allies liberated many of the Pacific Islands in hard-fought naval and amphibious battles before ending the war ...

Japan PM sends offering to war-linked Yasukuni shrine as ministers visit during autumn festival. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The state-sanctioned cruelty inflicted upon POWs and indigenous peoples by Japanese soldiers from the 1920s to the ’40s is told in unflinching detail by Bryan Mark Rigg in “Japan’s Holocaust: History ...

In this short episode of my Today in the Past series, I talk about what happened on August 23, 1914, when Japan declared war ...