In the spring of 1945, intelligence officers from the US Army Air Forces received several unexpected reconnaissance images.

Past visits by top leaders to Yasukuni, which honours convicted war criminals, have angered Japan’s neighbours.

Many narratives about World War II have emerged during the 80 postwar years, but one important question has not been ...

The country’s postwar history was a remarkable story of national rebirth. Now the assumptions that underpinned the last 80 years of policy are being stressed to the limit. Japanese Prime Minister ...

Japan’s former prime minister Tomiichi Murayama, best known for his historic apology over Japan’s wartime actions, has died ...

Baseball has been a shared love between Japan and the United States for over 150 years — a sport that has connected the ...

On Thursday, 18 pieces of ordnance believed to date to WWII were detonated on land at Kubasu Beach on Miyakojima, an island ...

Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor gravely damaged the U.S. Navy Pacific Fleet's strength, but fortunately, no American aircraft carriers were sunk in the attack. As a result, when the United States ...