Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto understood American power because he had seen it firsthand. He studied at Harvard, served as naval ...

Japan occupied all or part of over 20 countries during World War II. The U.S. and its allies liberated many of the Pacific Islands in hard-fought naval and amphibious battles before ending the war ...

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On May 3, 1946, at the former Army Ministry in central Tokyo, 11 international judges gathered for an extraordinary legal proceeding. The building’s auditorium had been refashioned into a courtroom, ...

A reporter traveled to the corners of the country to meet six World War II veterans, who had a warning for generations to come. By Martin Fackler Reporting from Tokyo Times Insider explains who we are ...

Demonstrators shouted slogans throughout the prime minister’s speech at a World War II memorial event in Okinawa.

On June 1, about 220 descendants of the war dead in Japan embarked on an 11-day voyage through the Taiwan Strait to the Philippines to offer prayers for relatives who died at sea during World War II. ...

South Korean President Lee Myung-bak (front L) visits a set of remote islands called Dokdo in Korean and Takeshima in Japanese, east of Seoul August 10, 2012. Lee visited the islands on Friday, ...

On a rainy afternoon in 1891, five years before he would be crowned tsar of Russia, Nicholas Romanov was riding a rickshaw through the narrow streets of Otsu, Japan, when one of the policemen tasked ...

Japan is reportedly considering breaking a postwar taboo to deal with threats from North Korea and China. Under a new proposal, Japanese C-2 planes would use the American Rapid Dragon system to ...