Ahead of the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, how Japan's leaders took their country into a conflict it would be impossible to win ...

It has taken Tineke Einthoven 80 years to be able to speak about what she lived through as a child in brutal Japanese ...

EXCLUSIVE: Geoff Stott survived the sinking of HMS Exeter, the Burma Railway, and forced labour in a Japanese shipyard - only ...

The Dutch presence in the Indonesian archipelago-first brought about by the decision of the Dutch East India Company in the ...

Unemployed and seeking a better life, Oscar Speck pushed his kayak into the water of the Danube and began paddling downriver.

Russian Ambassador Denis Alipov has strongly criticized NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte for making comments that appeared to threaten India with full secondary sanctions over its continued energy ...

After shocking the world by assaulting the American Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, the Japanese forces quickly moved to conquer the US-controlled Philippines; this was their one chance to seize the ...

THE German invasion of Holland and the flight of Queen Wilhelmina's Government have thrown the Dutch East Indies largely on their own devices. Indeed, as these lines are written there are indications ...

What sort of commercial aims did the Dutch have with this New Netherland territory? The Dutch global empire begins even before they founded the Dutch East India Company in the 1590s. They had some ...

Max Havelaar, of De koffieveilingen der Nederlandsche Handelmaatschappij (Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company), was published in 1860. Eduard Douwes Dekker, using the pen ...

The ship was laden with silver coins and carried somewhere between 320 and 340 passengers bound for the city of Batavia in present-day Indonesia, which was both the ship’s namesake and the ...