A fundamental change came in December 2022 when former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s government adopted a security strategy ...

As the expansive military and economic competition between the United States and China intensifies, Japan stands on the frontier of West and East with a new Cold War brewing between the world's top ...

Description: When during the night of the 8th of February 1904 the relatively small Japan launched a surprise attack against ...

Kisako Motoki, 86, speaks, looking though a red cellophane depicting what she saw the atmosphere of the night of the Great Tokyo Air Raid on March 10, 1945.AP/Eugene Hoshiko Kisako Motoki, who lost ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The geometry of any future conflict will be more complex than the one-on-one Sino-Japanese War. Let’s not understate the likelihood of war in East Asia or kid ...

On a clear day, residents of Japan’s picturesque holiday island of Yonaguni can see Taiwan’s mountain ranges rising above the sea mist. For the people living here, just 100km (62 miles) away from ...

The horrific human atrocity of World War II ended aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay as Japan formally signed documents of surrender on this day in history, Sept. 2, 1945. The ceremony lasted just ...

TOKYO >> World War II ended 75 years ago, but not all countries commemorate it on the same day. Today is the anniversary of the formal Sept. 2, 1945, surrender of Japan to the United States, when ...