Some politicians and commentators in Japan are reportedly worried that resigning Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba may break from ...

On the morning of Dec. 8, 1941, Sergeant David Akui walked along Waimanalo Beach and spotted what he thought was a sea turtle emerging from the surf. Akui quickly realized he had found something far ...

Japan's imperial ambitions in Pacific Asia from the 1880s to 1945 were shaped by a web of strategic alliances, racial politics, and great-power rivalries ...

Seven Japanese-American soldiers who were once deemed “enemy aliens” but fought for the Army during World War II were posthumously commissioned as Army officers. Prior to the war, all seven had been ...

Karen Kikukawa grew up not knowing much about her father’s service during World War II. He was an American-born Japanese — a Nisei — who served in the U.S. Army. But unlike the veterans of the famous ...

Japan has long tied Chinese cultural relics plundered during its aggression and war atrocities during World War II to its so-called war merits to whitewash its history of aggression, while having ...