Twenty-seven cavalrymen charged Japanese infantry at Morong, Philippines, on January 16, 1942. They scattered hundreds of ...

During World War II, Japanese radar systems could detect American B-29 Superfortress bombers long before they reached their ...

In August 1945, the Soviet Union launched a massive and largely forgotten offensive into Japanese-occupied Manchuria. Known ...

Therefore, Japan must uphold the principles of the United Nations Charter including peaceful dispute resolution, avoid ...

We descended into Chibichibi Cave in southern Okinawa with the heavy feeling that this was not a site of distant history, but a warning. The cave is low ...

President Trump says the U.S. must own and control Greenland for its future security—and is turning to history to make his ...

In President Donald Trump’s “America First” mindset, allies are afterthoughts and previous US presidents were stupid.

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Terumi Tanaka, co-chair of the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, said they are 'committed to building the movement' for nuclear abolition this year.

From a crumbling pill box in the UK to a derelict rail line in Hawaii, these are the abandoned World War II places that the world forgot.

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Decades after Japanese Americans were forcibly removed from their homes during World War II, survivors and advocates say the same legal and racial logic is resurfacing in Trump’s immigration ...