Experts and former miners have found discrepancies in alleged footage of Gunkanjima, used by some South Korean media to back wartime forced labor claims.
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.
The US military must take responsibility for its troops and the children born from sexual relations in Japan. Tokyo must also represent its citizens better.
A particularly reflective ornithological bugbear of Hiroaki Sato is how America, a land of immigrants, could be so hostile to "alien species."
The issues are difficult, but President Yoon Suk-yeol of South Korea shows courage in floating a new proposal to end the acrimony with Japan, says Mr...
Russian troops, joined by counterparts from China and India, held a drill, firing weapons into the Sea of Japan, off Hokkaido.
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...
“The four seas are born from a single womb, why then should wind and waves rise in discord?” ーEmperor Meiji
“The video in question was up for almost a month, and the Foreign Ministry didn’t even notice. We are losing the information war,” said one Diet...
Japan should be proud of its past. The truth is that when Japan did have a military, it used it for the noblest purpose of all...
The Columbia University historian draws on the records in a fascinating read tackling common beliefs about POWs in WWII.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the movement of missile forces have pushed Finland and Sweden toward applying for NATO membership.
