Declassified archives reveal the immense strategic gamble behind the invasion of Saipan, a island Japan considered sacred ...

As the world focused on Normandy in 1944, a less famous but equally pivotal battle was brewing for the island of Saipan, a ...

Eight decades since the end of the Second World War, the US-Japan alliance continues to evolve beyond its Cold War foundations. On September 2, 1945, on the deck of USS Missouri, Imperial Japan ...

To date, those two bombings represent the only instances in which nuclear weapons have been deployed in war. At least 150,000 Japanese perished -- a majority of them civilians. But the bombings were ...

Communist China’s president, Xi Jinping, on the 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II, on Wednesday will host two of America’s most difficult foes, President Vladimir Putin of Russia ...

A map shows where Japan will conduct a large-scale exercise on land and in waters and airspace around the archipelagic country later this month, as the United States security ally faces growing ...

Mr Xi reportedly told her that China was willing to “work with Japan to…advance the strategic, mutually beneficial ...

Another day, another piece of evidence that President Donald Trump’s escalating trade war with friends and foes is hurting the global economy. Today: Japan’s central bank cut its economic growth ...

The new premier in Tokyo suggests that a Chinese attack on Taiwan would present ‘a survival-threatening situation for Japan.’ ...

This week marks the 80th anniversary of President Harry Truman's fateful decision to drop atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (respectively, Aug. 6 and 9, 1945). To date, ...

This week marks the 80th anniversary of President Harry Truman’s fateful decision to drop atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (respectively, Aug. 6 and 9, 1945). To date, ...