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 ...

Under the new budget, more than 970 billion yen ($6.2bn) is earmarked to enhance Japan’s “standoff” missile capabilities.

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.

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 ...

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.

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

Japan's shipbuilding industry is moving to rebuild after a prolonged slump, with the government establishing a $6.42 billion ...