The annual Victory over Japan Day (VJ Day) celebration marks the date Imperial Japan surrendered to the Allies. On August 15, ...

What the world’s only atomic bombings, carried out by the United States military, did to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Eighty years ago this week, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on Aug. 6, 1945. Three days later, another ...

In his report, Clark wrote that Takeda “readily agreed” and, as US and Japanese soldiers knelt together by the shore in ...

Eighty years after the city’s destruction, we seem to be blundering into a new age of nuclear perils. It is time for culture ...

Planning a trip to Kyoto, Japan? Our guide covers the must-see temples, the Arashiyama Bamboo Grove, where to eat, and the ...

Tsunami alerts across the Pacific are being downgraded after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake, one of the strongest ever recorded, ...

One of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded has sent a tsunami crashing into a Russian port and smaller waves barreling across the Pacific to the Americas and south to ...

The enhancement of the Type 12 anti-ship missile is part of Japan's ongoing efforts to bolster the defense of its outlying ...

Facing stretched supply lines and overwhelming enemies, Japan turned to an unlikely solution—recruiting soldiers from its ...

One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck Russia's Far East early Wednesday, sending tsunami waves into Japan and ...

As the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II approaches, only a few veterans of Japan’s brutal war remain. “Never die ...