Japan’s invasion of China in World War II began with the expansion of conflict after years of tension. Following the Marco ...

An analysis of the United States' handling of the Taiwan question shows that it has repeatedly violated its own commitments, ...

Eighty years ago, Taiwan was at the center of Japan’s collapsing empire. Allied POWs were being freed, and locals faced the realities of occupation, forced labor and collaboration during World War II.

There’s quite a story to the banged-up, old bullet that a World War II nurse with strong ties to Lake and Sonoma counties just donated in person to the national museum at Pearl Harbor. And you can be ...

Best-selling books such as Japan as Number One warned of Japanese dominance. The PBS series Frontline aired the documentary “Losing the War to Japan.” Silicon Valley looked spent after U.S. producers ...

This essay is adapted from “Measuring Violence,” the first chapter of John Dower’s book, The Violent American Century: War and Terror Since World War Two.

U.S. lawmakers and national security officials are increasingly alarmed that long-standing research ties between the U.S. and ...

The Truk Atoll, now known as the Chuuk Lagoon, lies about 900 miles northeast of the main island of Papua New Guinea and 3,500 miles southeast of Hawaii. Japan used the atoll to help double its ...

Japan’s former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, who was known for his 1995 “Murayama statement” apologizing to Asian victims of his country’s aggression, died Friday. He was 101.

The massive military parade held in Beijing on September 3 was a piece of political theater intended to challenge America’s leadership of the postwar world order, says Etō Naoko in her contextual ...

They will fundamentally change the United States’ position in the world economy, untangling the country, at least in part, from global supply chains. Consumer goods companies will make more of their ...