Part I: Meiji restoration: 1868 -- Empires in conflict -- Part II: Japan versus America and the world: 1931-1941 -- Ultra-nationalism and the death of democracy -- Japan versus China: From phoney war ...

Life of Chiang Wei-kuo, the Chinese Wehrmacht Panzer Commander: Japanese snipers during the Second World War have, surprisingly enough, not been subject to a lot of research and writing. The Japanese ...

Dec. 7—Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor 80 years ago was not the knockout punch the Japanese organizers had hoped for, and one historian says it most likely had just the opposite effect. After ...

On the night of Aug. 14, 1945, the bespectacled Emperor of Japan walked into the second-floor room of the Household Ministry in Tokyo, where the technicians from the national radio station, NHK, had ...

The Imperial Household Agency has released its official biography of the late Empress Nagako, known posthumously as Kojun, ...

The Truk Atoll, now known as the Chuuk Lagoon, lies about 900 miles northeast of the main island of Papua New Guinea and 3,500 miles southeast of Hawaii. Japan used the atoll to help double its ...

This photo shows the venue for the war dead memorial service in Tokyo on Aug. 15, 2025, as Japan marks the 80th anniversary of its surrender in World War II. (Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan on Friday ...

The Truk Atoll, now known as the Chuuk Lagoon, lies about 900 miles northeast of the main island of Papua New Guinea and ...

People visit the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu Province, on September 18, 2024. Photo: VCG. Editor's Note: ...