As Japan modernized and became the one non-European great power, its leaders concluded that an empire on the Asian mainland required the containment of Russia. Japan won the First Sino-Japanese War ...

John Salmon turns 100 in a few days. In 1945, he battled the Empire of Japan, fending off snakes, mosquitoes, disease, monsoons, mould and shrapnel.

After suffering more than 220,000 casualties, the Empire of Japan announced its surrender, leading to the end of World War II. The US forces quickly moved in to launch Operation Blacklist ...