This video is best enjoyed with headphones. 🎵 The First Sino-Japanese War was the ultimate test between the respective ...
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 ...
Who was to blame for the atrocities perpetrated on American POWs in the Philippines? While there is no easy answer to that question, one of the men who was charged with war crimes was Japanese ...
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In the rubble left by the firebombing of Tokyo in WWII, a 12-year-old girl who once dreamed of a life in music learns to shine shoes, fall in with a band of orphaned boys sheltering under a local ...
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 ...
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, ...
The state-sanctioned cruelty inflicted upon POWs and indigenous peoples by Japanese soldiers from the 1920s to the ’40s is told in unflinching detail by Bryan Mark Rigg in “Japan’s Holocaust: History ...
Eight decades since the end of the Second World War, the US-Japan alliance continues to evolve beyond its Cold War foundations. On September 2, 1945, on the deck of USS Missouri, Imperial Japan ...
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, ...
Peter Kuzinick, director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University, has described the US as “the most war-making country” in the world. Case in point is the newly-minted Japan-US-Korea ...