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

Work has begun on the Pacific Island of Ioto in the Ogasawara Islands to recover the remains of those who died in fighting ...

Aluminum buyers in Japan, where the automobile industry is heavily dependent on metal imports, agreed to pay a sharply higher premium for third-quarter shipments after two producers lowered their ...

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

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi was heckled Tuesday with anti-war slogans during a ceremony in the southern island prefecture ...

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. ...

By Leika Kihara TOKYO, July 1 (Reuters) - Big Japanese manufacturers' sentiment improved in the three months to June to ...

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 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 ...

Takamatsu Gushiken turns on a headlamp and enters a cave buried in Okinawa's jungle. He gently runs his fingers through the gravel until two pieces of bone emerge. These are from the skulls, he says, ...