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

In early 1945, the U.S. launched an aerial offensive on the Japanese naval base at Kure, targeting the battleship Haruna. Defending the base were elite Japanese fighter instructors piloting Kawanishi ...

While not having heard until recently of the ‘Hiroshima Committee’, I have no doubt the members of this activist group are ...

Op-ed views and opinions expressed are solely those of the author. As we approach the 80th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bombs on the Japanese […] ...

This summer’s slate includes “Annie,” a very Canadian “Anne of Green Gables,” the thought-provoking “Forgiveness” and a very ...

Japan has acquired U.S.-made F-35B stealth fighter jets that could operate from its aircraft carriers in the future.

The Wife of a Spy and Cloud director talks about deviating from the genre he’s known best for and the ‘contradiction’ in his ...

As the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II approaches, only a few veterans of Japan’s brutal war remain. “Never die for Emperor or country,” one advised.

Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, known as a master of horror films, plans to tackle the samurai genre for the first time ...

Mike Wiluan's lean, grisly creature feature, set on a remote Pacific island during WWII, thrills just long enough not to get ...