The Tokyo Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Chicago Cubs is a full circle moment for Japanese baseball.

World War II ended 75 years ago ... But some nations mark Aug. 15 as the war’s end, the day Japan’s emperor made a speech announcing the surrender. A: An abbreviation for Victory over Japan ...

Hiroshima and Nagasaki each had an Atomic bomb dropped on them, forcing the formal Japanese surrender on 15th August announced by Emperor Hirohito, and two weeks later, on September 2nd ...

In a time when the chaos of news-by-the-minute assaults the senses of those who yearn for perspective and analysis, it can be instructive to look back to April 1945, a month that gave the world 30 ...

“The only professional game Emperor Hirohito ever attended, Nagashima hit two home runs, one of them in the bottom of the ninth. Many people say that is the greatest game ever played in Japa ...

March 28, 1885 was an important day in the life of the region that, more than seven decades later, would become the Gold ...

With changing times and changing political leadership, more and more Japanese-era buildings are being restored and reopened ...