The Major Leagues may be considered the top baseball league globally. But in international competition, Japan reigns supreme.

Sergeant David Akui walked along Waimanalo Beach on the morning of Dec. 8, 1941, and spotted what he thought was a sea turtle ...

In a world beset by conflict in the Middle East and an enduring war in Ukraine, tensions are again heating up in East Asia.

Hiroya Sugano was 12 when U.S. forces bombed his hometown Shizuoka during WWII. A blackened canteen recovered from the ...

Even before the first Japanese bomb fell, the HA-19 and four other Type A midget submarines were meant to deal the first blow ...

Survivors of the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor have long been the center of a remembrance ceremony held each year on ...

In the dead of night on July 6, 1943, U.S. and Japanese warships collided in the narrow waters of the Solomon Islands.

The Prideaux loader was one of several early such devices patented and manufactured as early as 1893, but neither it nor any competitor saw much demand until the outbreak of World War One. At that ...

The plan to gradually discharge more than a million tons of treated water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has deeply divided nations and scientists. On February 21, 2021, a Tokyo Electric ...

Japanese prime minister Sanae Takaichi (left) met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea on 31 October China and Japan have been locked in an escalating row, set off by Japanese prime ...

China sent Coast Guard ships near disputed islands and warned travelers and students about safety risks in Japan. The escalation is over comments on Taiwan by Japan’s new prime minister. By Yan Zhuang ...

Japan raised objections Saturday after China advised its citizens to avoid visiting Japan, as a feud over the new Japanese leader's remarks on Taiwan showed no signs of dying down. The government in ...