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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Read about why China's massive debt, energy reliance, and housing bubble are top concerns for investors amid U.S. Access the ...

The right-wing populist party Sanseito made big strides in parliamentary elections in Japan, capitalizing on concerns about the economy, immigration and overtourism.

A fringe far-right populist party in Japan was one of the biggest winners in the weekend’s upper house election ...