Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako plan to face up to Japan’s wartime history on their visit to Indonesia, a country Japan occupied for more than three years until its defeat in World War II in ...

Negotiations for the first Japanese emperor to visit China in 1992 were kept so secret that the prime minister at the time, Kiichi Miyazawa, complained he was not sufficiently consulted.

After living through the tumultuous Showa period (1926-1989), the entire Heisei (1989-2019) and into the current Reiwa era, ...

A 65-year-old U.S. man was arrested in Tokyo last Wednesday for allegedly defacing a torii gate at Meiji Jingu Shrine in ...

A peculiar and astonishing statement has emerged, highlighting unprecedented risks that may lie ahead. Its formulation ...

You wouldn't know it if you looked at the baby-faced senior gazing off the pages of the 1928 Bismarck High School yearbook. Joe Enright, whose slogan was "mutual love is a mutual delight," was active ...

This rare Japanese World War II fighter aircraft and combat veteran draws vistiors from around the world. [...] ...

Steve Niforatos’ recent letter, “Bombs were dropped for a reason,” was spot on in its criticism of a ridiculous Chicago ...

One day in July, Rafiq slipped out of the world's largest refugee settlement in southern Bangladesh and crossed the border into Myanmar on a small boat. His destination: a ruinous civil war in a ...

The Japanese forensic team is optimistic as well," he added. The Mainamati War Cemetery in Comilla is the final resting place of 737 soldiers who died during World War II between 1941 and 1945. Among ...

A week of meetings in Japan following the U.S. election revealed that the prospect of broad tariffs, forced decoupling from China, and further disruption of the global economic order has left many ...