Korea was a colony of Japan for 36 years, from 1910 to the end of World War II in 1945. However, there is a distinct lack of ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito said he is praying for the happiness of people in Japan and the world in his first New Year's ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and his family waved from a balcony window to throngs of New Year’s well-wishers, some shouting, ...

Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako wave to well-wishers from a balcony at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo during a New ...

At the time, the defense of Manila was the single most consequential event of the Pacific War from the point of view of the law of armed conflict. Wars-of-continuation decided the fates of Vietnam ...

China seems to be taking the same careful approach to its carrier program as Japan took during the interwar period. If the Battle of the Philippine Sea had played out differently, Japan's navy ...

The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about how the Japanese Emperor spends the first days of ...

It is built on sometimes surprising friendships forged at the Japan-run university, which glorified official notions of pan-Asian harmony even as imperial troops brutalized much of the region.

On a cloudless day off the Philippines coast, Shigetoshi Kaneko held onto floating debris while adrift, clinging to hope ...

Emperor Naruhito expressed his wishes for the people’s well-being and the nation’s development at an annual New Year ...

In 1926, when Japanese Emperor Hirohito ascended the Imperial throne, he was revered by millions of Japanese people as a living god. Almost 100 years later, the world's oldest continuing monarchy ...