A fundamental change came in December 2022 when former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s government adopted a security strategy ...

TOKYO (AP) — For years, orphans in Japan were punished just for surviving the war. They were bullied. They were called trash and left to fend for themselves on the street. Police rounded them up and ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: An amphibious assault against an island defended even by a small number of well-armed defenders with long-range weapons is difficult, which is one reason why the U.S.

This film explores how air superiority in World War II shifted in the Pacific, from the early dominance of the Mitsubishi ...

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. ...

SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea's top court ordered two Japanese companies to financially compensate more of their wartime Korean workers for forced labor, as it sided Thursday with its contentious ...

When the leaders of China, Japan, and South Korea last met, in May 2024, observers viewed the meeting with a sense of relief. Japan and South Korea were emerging from one of the darkest periods in ...

Takamatsu Gushiken turns on a headlamp and enters a cave buried in Okinawa's jungle. He gently runs his fingers through the gravel until two pieces of bone emerge. These are from the skulls, he says, ...

Japan entered World War II believing the United States lacked the will to fight a long war. This film follows Pearl Harbor, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, and the assumptions that shaped Japan’s strategy.

TOKYO >> World War II ended 75 years ago, but not all countries commemorate it on the same day. Today is the anniversary of the formal Sept. 2, 1945, surrender of Japan to the United States, when ...

TOKYOTOKYO — For years, orphans in Japan were punished just for surviving the war. They were bullied. They were called trash and left to fend for themselves on the street. Police rounded them up and ...