Explore a timeline of the Pacific theater, from the invasion of Saipan in the Mariana Islands of the Central Pacific to the ...

Japan hoped that by attacking the fleet at Pearl Harbor it could delay American intervention, gaining time to solidify its ...

Those were the words of Gen. Hideki Tojo, the little Japanese Premier who catapulted the United States into the war with his ...

Japan can use the Iran war to reexamine its security framework, with particular attention to preparations for a contingency ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over-tourism is a problem in Japan today, as sightseers push the local infrastructure to its limits. But the Land of the Rising Sun has been a popular destination for Westerners for much ...