Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani led the tributes to Japanese baseball legend Shigeo Nagashima following his death ...

To mark the 80th anniversary of the victory in the World Anti-Fascist War, a commemorative photo exhibition honoring the ...

After surviving the Bataan Death March, Army Maj. James O'Donovan died in a prisoner of war camp. His remains went ...

A surprise Ukrainian drone attack that targeted Russian air bases hosting nuclear-capable strategic bombers was unprecedented ...

A person walks past the One-Pillar Torii Gate at Sannō Shrine, the only gate remaining of four gates after the 1945 atomic ...

On this Memorial Day, we turn to the life and legacy of Yukio Kawamoto. The Japanese-American World War II veteran served his country under almost unthinkable circumstances and then spent a lifetime ...

The Kikka itself was a sleek, compact aircraft with a design that reflected both German influence as well as Japanese ...

For example, killing enemy combatants may create martyrs, while targeting civilians may lower their pro-war morale. We solve this problem by leveraging a natural experiment in Japan in which military ...

She was the voice of Japanese propaganda in WWII, but Tokyo Rose was actually an American citizen stranded in Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Once a symbol of rebellion and girlhood, the cartoon cat has become a cultural ambassador—part of Japan’s global soft power strategy to rebrand its image after World War II. To much of the ...

whose decision to play in Yugoslavia had violated US sanctions against the war-torn country. In 2004, Fischer was detained in Japan after presenting his revoked US passport. Mr. Spassky defended ...