The United States was dragged unwillingly into World War II by the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, ...

The chair of the Preparatory Committee for the review of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation Nuclear Weapons, or NPT, met ...

Koreshige Anami, Japan's ambassador to China, who sought to ease tensions over visits to the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine by ...

Ishirō Honda's momentous 1954 monster film was born out of a national tragedy in Japan. It has a bleak message for humanity ...

An invasion of Taiwan by China today would face similar challenges that caused the US to drop the idea during WWII. The ...

He pioneered a surrealistic narrative style in collaborations with dancers, artists and the author Yukio Mishima, with whom ...

It might seem like a perfect springboard for the presidency, but most vice presidents end up as mere footnotes in history.

LIMA: US President Joe Biden met with Japanese and South Korean leaders on Friday (Nov 15) as they sought to cement their ...

Henry Diedrich poses with his memoir, “Voyages Thru Calm Yet Stormy Seas,” at his home at Rock Island’s Friendship Manor. The ...

These men, their capture and the fate of what became the “Lost Battalion” became one of the most harrowing stories of Texas ...

Toward the war’s end in August, 1945, the 127th Liaison Squadron left India and was ordered to move into position in the ...

Tokyo — Japanese Princess Yuriko, the wife of wartime Emperor ... was burned down in the U.S. fire bombings of Tokyo in the ...