The loss of the Prince of Wales and the Repulse paved the way for Japanese forces to make a successful run on Malaya and ...

Our trusted travel specialists weigh in on Japan's less-touristed, just-as-exciting destinations, from arty Naoshima to the ...

Tyler Smith, a recreation planner from San Francisco, recently climbed a forested mountainside in western Tokyo to honor the ...

On this Memorial Day, we turn to the life and legacy of Yukio Kawamoto. The Japanese-American World War II veteran served his country under almost unthinkable circumstances and then spent a lifetime ...

Over a million tons of unexploded ordnance (UXO) dating back to World Wars I and II rest beneath the surface. From sea mines ...

Connie Sweeris, part of the US women's table tennis team that traveled to China in 1971, recalls trip, historic bus ride that helped thaw relations On April 7, 1971, the last day of competition at the ...

Japan has been looking to replace its older T-4 jet trainer, as Tokyo requires more modern aircraft to prepare pilots for the advanced F-35s and the ...

Karin Prien, post-World War II Germany's first Jewish federal cabinet ... for equality for the group of service members known as the Port Chicago 50. Charlie D'Agata has the story.

In a bid to cut costs while hosting next year’s Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, the organisers have struck upon a unique solution: a luxury cruise ship docked at the Nagoya Port which will become ... when ...

Join the History Seekers as we uncover 150-year-old Civil War relics from the historic Siege of Port Hudson ... 3.67 inch Sawyer rifles (cannons) and (2) 20 lb Parrott rifles (cannons) and ...

History is seldom tidy. Eras overlap and unfinished business from one period lingers into the next. World War II was a war like no other in the magnitude of its effects on the lives of people and the ...

Eighty years ago, on May 3, 1945, as Europe stood in hope and prayer for the end of World War II, one of the greatest ... the Germans had assembled in the port of Lübeck. None of them knew ...