The hangout of choice for generations of Tokyo intellectuals, Jimbocho is a historic university enclave and a bibliophile ...

Japanese sentries saw him first, a silhouette, half-hidden in mist and reeds, dragging himself from the riverbank like something half-drowned. Alone, drenched in sweat, and wrapped in a Soviet officer ...

The Marines and the Army's Wildcats were ready to storm the beaches of Peleliu and Angaur and take the fight to the entrenched Japanese forces. Nevertheless, they had to wait for almost a week before ...