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

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 ...

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

The 79th anniversary of the Battle of Bessang Pass, the most decisive battle of the Second World War in the Philippines which helped turn the tide of the war, was recently observed in Ilocos Sur by ...

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

I was 19 when the war began. As Japanese forces moved closer towards Hong Kong, I worked in the city, loading hundreds of bags of rice onto ferries on Hong Kong Island every day. But when Japanese ...

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 ...

But Hisahito, who turned 18 in September and is second in line to become emperor after his father ... its divine status after Japan's defeat in World War II and it has no political power.

The latest entry in the long-running Doraemon anime franchise, Nobita’s Art World Tales (Eiga Doraemon: Nobita no Esekai Monogatari), has taken the Japanese box office by storm in its opening weekend.

Kanye West feels a special connection to Japan. He spent several months living ... “And my wife said that in past lives, I was a king. I was an emperor out here,” he continued.

WASHINGTON — References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and the first women to pass Marine infantry training are among the ...