This book review introduces author Evan Thomas's new, intimate insights into the thinking of three key men who played decisive roles in ending the Pacific War.
"More than ever we must work together with the international community to face today's challenges," said PM Kishida at the World War II remembrance ceremony.
Colonel Galbraith's posthumously published narrative offers a rare and revealing insight into life in the senior Allied officer POW camps during World War II.
This book is not only about war, the US military, and the Chaplain Corps. Religion, faith, and humanity are themes deeply running through the pages.
Some in the West find it convenient to photoshop the Russians out of WWII while skewing the data to make the Japanese look bad. A look...
August 15 — Despite sweltering weather, thousands of people flocked to the Yasukuni Shrine to commemorate peace and pay respect to those who died in past...
Approximately one thousand people gathered at the Nippon Budokan on a sweltering August day to commemorate the end of the Second World War in Japan.
The story of the little-known prime minister in 1945 is a cautionary reminder that Japan's surrender of an unwinnable war was not a certainty.
Setsuzo Kotsuji risked his life to move Jewish refugees sent to Japan under the Visas for Life program to safer refuges including the United States during...
A “unilateral change of the status quo by force must never be allowed in the Indo-Pacific, especially in East Asia” ー PM Fumio Kishida.
The West gave him what? Stalin got armies and technology out of the war, and more than his fair share of the loot, including POWs and...
(First of a 3-Part Series) In 1965, Japan and South Korea normalized their diplomatic relations. Japan paid South Korea $ 300 million with no strings attached...