Japan did not enter World War One out of loyalty or ideology. It entered because Britain gave it an opening and Germany had valuable colonies in China and the Pacific sitting exposed. Japan seized ...

In the late 1930s, an ambitious American airliner was designed to change the future of flight, but instead became a costly failure. During World War II, that same aircraft design resurfaced in Japan ...

Japanese kickboxing icon Masato Kobayashi couldn't contain his excitement watching two striking specialists, Yuki Yoza and ...

On Sept. 2, 1945, the official end of World War II came to pass with Japan’s signing of the Instrument of Surrender aboard ...

World War II Navy veteran Ira “Ike” Schab, one of the dwindling number of survivors of the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, has died. He was 105.

World War II Navy veteran Ira “Ike” Schab, one of the dwindling number of survivors of the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl ...

This war film is more epic than the critics made it out to be upon its release, and is finding a new audience on streaming.

On Dec. 23, 1948, former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and six other Japanese war leaders were hanged in Tokyo under sentence of ...

Japan ’s Cabinet on Friday approved a record defense budget plan exceeding 9 trillion yen ($58 billion) for the coming fiscal year, accelerating a military buildup that includes cruise missiles and ...

On a sprawling Sino-Japanese war film set in a Shanghai studio, Japanese actor Tenma Shibuya leaned into this reporter and quietly warned, "Don't speak Japanese." Chinese parents and their son, ...

A former schoolteacher armed with a radio and a force of Solomon Islander scouts became one of World War II's most legendary ...

A diplomatic row with Japan over Taiwan has China turning to Britain and France for support, appealing to their shared history as wartime allies. By David Pierson Reporting from Hong Kong China’s ...