In July 1945, 80 years ago, when World War II (WWII) in Europe was finally over, leaders of the three victorious powers - the ...

Stationed in Lithuania, Chiune Sugihara granted transit visas that allowed holders to escape Europe and travel through Japan ...

On June 23, 1944, the Japanese submarine I-52 sailed through the mid-Atlantic with a mission that could shift the tides of ...

Since the age of seven, Japanese schoolboy Shun Sasaki has been offering free guided tours to foreign visitors of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park with a mission: ensuring that the horrors of nuclear ...

Eighty years ago today a great international conference was happening that indelibly shaped the world to come. Let’s take a ...

The former mayor and U.S. housing secretary said San Antonio's Toyota plant, which resulted from ties, is 'huge for the ...

The Philippines' new foreign minister has said she sees no problem if Japan were to amend its pacifist Constitution to ...

Shigeaki Mori, a survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bombing, was on hand recently to help unveil a plaque in the rural Japanese town of Ikachi, near Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, to commemorate the ...

1969 An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 fighter collide over Morioka, Japan, killing 162 people.

Manhattan Project National Historical Park, with sites in three time zones, tells the complex story of the making of the ...

Marine WWII veteran George Bradbury, who served with the Navajo Code Talkers and witnessed the aftermath of Okinawa, ...