Wall St. Insights Japan occupied all or part of over 20 countries during World War II. The U.S. and its allies liberated many ...

In 1949, Japan stood at a crossroads between devastation and recovery. The country was still reeling from the impact of World ...

The Japanese began to bomb American bases in the Philippines hours after the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor that launched the United States into World War II. By the spring of 1942, Japanese ...

The aftermath of the Second World War was incredibly chaotic and missing Japanese soldiers that turned up years later weren’t ...

KUCHING: A new monument has been unveiled at Pending Point here, commemorating Sarawak's liberation from Japanese occupation during World War II 80 years ago. The stone and steel monument was put up ...

Russia's top diplomat complained to his Japanese counterpart about the deployment of U.S. missile defense systems near Russia's Pacific borders—a move that Moscow argued served to enhance a global ...

In December 1970, on a visit to Warsaw, Willie Brandt, chancellor of West Germany, came to the site of the Warsaw Ghetto. Brandt sank to his knees and bowed his head. At the time, the gesture was ...

When most people think of the Pacific Theater of World War II, they envision tropical islands, heat, and jungle combat.