President Donald Trump's push for Japanese self-reliance aligns with the long-standing desire of conservatives in Tokyo to ...

It’s a controversial move that some fear deviates from Tokyo’s pacifist ideals, but one others say is much needed in a ...

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 ...

Fought between 1904 and 1905, the Russo-Japanese War marked the first time an Asian power defeated a major European empire in modern warfare. Using Google Earth, this video traces the conflict from ...

On the eve of Japan's invasion of China in the early 1930s, a group of museum curators at the Forbidden City in Peking (now Beijing) gathered together and asked themselves: What would happen to the ...

On June 1, about 220 descendants of the war dead in Japan embarked on an 11-day voyage through the Taiwan Strait to the Philippines to offer prayers for relatives who died at sea during World War II. ...

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 ...

On May 3, 1946, at the former Army Ministry in central Tokyo, 11 international judges gathered for an extraordinary legal proceeding. The building’s auditorium had been refashioned into a courtroom, ...

The post-war interrogation of Military Police (Kenpeitai) Sergeant Hosotani Naoji near Sandakan, northeast Borneo, in October 1945. Credit: Public Domain One of the most emblematic photographs related ...

Chinese spies stealing trade secrets from Japanese companies. Japanese soldiers unknowingly using USB drives infected with ...