Deep within the dense canopy of ancient trees and tangled undergrowth that unfolded over the island of Guadalcanal like a ...

Born from the trauma of World War II, this bow-wearing cartoon icon became a powerful tool for diplomacy, reinvention, and ...

AN ICONIC wooden car has been discovered in the wreckage of the famed US warship, downed by a Japanese submarine during WWII. Historians are baffled as to why the 1940-41 black Ford Super Deluxe ...

Why wasn’t Tokyo, Japan’s capital city, chosen as a nuclear target, while Hiroshima and Nagasaki were mostly annihilated? The ...

Each of these documents is a product of its own time, representing a distinct phase in the long-running history wars that have strained Japan’s relations with both China and South Korea.

It has been 80 years since World War II fighting ended in Europe. However, did you know that even royals snuck outside to ...

On the flat top of a steep hill in a distant corner of northern Japan lies the tomb of an itinerant ... a professor of religious history at the Princeton Theological Seminary.

It was a top secret allied mission to cripple the Nazi war machine throughout Europe during World War 2 - so secret that not ...

The story of the Second World War in pictures, from the Blitz to Berlin. Commemorating the 80th anniversary of the end of WW2 ...

Rieko Tamaki, 90, a resident of Naha, still remembers the final moments of her then 14-year-old brother's life during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa. "He died in agony, crying out, ‘Give me water.

And what a villain it would make of his ultimate undoer, whose military and political genius shaped Japan’s history for 500 years beyond his lifetime? Go-Daigo came to the throne in 1318 ...