After Tarawa showed the terrible cost of attacking fortified islands head-on, American commanders increasingly turned to ...

In the spring of 1945, the U.S. Navy quietly handed over 149 warships to the Soviet Union at a remote Alaskan outpost, training the crews for the upcoming invasion of Japan.

BEIJING, April 30 (Xinhua) -- Japan's latest move to reinstate WWII military ranks out of "a sense of honor" is a breach of long-existing rules and will instill a wrong perception, and this would also ...

BENXI, China — Eighty years after the end of World War II, Japan and China are marking the anniversary with major events, but on different dates and in different ways. Japan remembers the victims in a ...

Since October last year, Japan PM Sanae Takaichi has planned to increase defence spending target to 2 percent of GDP.

According to Japanese media reports, Japan has finalized a plan to revise the titles of Japan Self-Defense Forces officers and hopes to submit a draft amendment to the Diet within the year. The new ...

Japan's recent decision to lift the ban on lethal weapons exports is not just symbolic. It signals something bigger.

SASEBO/TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) - Japan on Saturday activated its first marine unit since World War Two trained to counter invaders occupying Japanese islands along the edge of the East China Sea that ...