On Apr. 7, 1945, aircraft from the U.S. Navy’s fast carrier task force sank the largest battleship ever built, the Imperial ...

The campaign began on June 3 and 4, 1942, when Japanese aircraft launched air attacks against the U.S. naval base at Dutch ...

In 1942, Japanese engineers tested a captured American rifle and uncovered a devastating truth about modern warfare. The story follows the M1 Garand, the Japanese response to it, and the desperate ...

Will the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation mean returning East Asia to the order that stood before 1894?

Early 20th century photographs of the Chinese Tang Honglu Well Stele of the Tang Dynasty (618-907) and its pavilion taken by ...

NANKOKU, Kochi -- Once-despised "entai" concrete bunkers built here during World War II to protect military aircraft should ...

Such assertions are not isolated incidents but reflect persistent efforts by Japan's right wing to systematically distort and whitewash its history of wartime aggression. The various narratives ...

The two Asian giants are locked in an escalating row triggered by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi commenting on ...

According to a survey by Japan's Post-War Rehabilitation Agency, 119 cities were destroyed by air raids, 2.4 million homes burned, and 8.8 million people displaced. In the war's final phase, ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ever sequenced. A mosaic death mask believed to have belonged to the Maya ...

BEIJING] China and Japan are bound together by trade and geography, but a long history of rivalry and unresolved disputes ...

Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said at a forum that he is committed to strengthening the Japan-U.S. alliance for peace in ...