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 ...

A woman who lost her parents during war and was raised by kind strangers grew up to dedicate her life to helping others. Her ...

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 ...

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, ...

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. ...

As the expansive military and economic competition between the United States and China intensifies, Japan stands on the frontier of West and East with a new Cold War brewing between the world's top ...

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 ...

Kisako Motoki, 86, speaks, looking though a red cellophane depicting what she saw the atmosphere of the night of the Great Tokyo Air Raid on March 10, 1945.AP/Eugene Hoshiko Kisako Motoki, who lost ...