An estimated 240,000 people were killed or went missing in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Eighty years later, the ...

Nicknamed the “Tokyo Express” by their opponents, the Japanese “tin cans” acquired the grudging respect of the Americans for ...

In The Bells of Old Tokyo, Anna Sherman ... Peter Marshall investigates the causes and consequences of the German Peasants’ War, the largest uprising in Europe before the French Revolution. Peter ...

They had two children before he was killed in the Japan-China war that broke out in 1937. Hakoishi lost her salon in the deadly March 10, 1945 U.S. firebombing of Tokyo. Before that, she and her ...

As far back as the 14th century, the lush backyard of the contemporary Hotel Chinzanso Tokyo was called Tsubakiyama, or ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) confirmed the first blooming of a cherry blossom on Monday, when the specimen tree of the Somei Yoshino at Tokyo's Yasukuni shrine had more than five blossoms ...

In the Ukraine war, it is good, old artillery more than its Spetznaz ... have fired more than a million shells on the first day. Before the war, Russian experts recommended massing 75 to 100 ...

Watch live as tourists gather in Tokyo to see the Japanese capital's cherry blossoms before full bloom. The trees, also known as sakura, mark the onset of spring in the Asian country, with the ...

Several key figures in World War II’s final battles were heroic young Japanese-American men who studied in Minnesota.

A weeping cherry tree, which is said to be 600 years old, is blooming at a temple northwest of Tokyo. There are about 30 weeping trees at the Seiunji temple in the city of Chichibu, Saitama ...