Since October last year, Japan PM Sanae Takaichi has planned to increase defence spending target to 2 percent of GDP.

Ireichō is a book containing the names of 125,284 individuals of Japanese ancestry incarcerated without due process during World War II. Survivors like my father place a Japanese hanko, or stamp, ...

Among the potential new customers for Japan are the Polish military and the Philippine navy. Read more at straitstimes.com.

TOKYO — Suspected human bones have been recovered at a wartime mine in Japan where about 180 mostly Korean forced laborers died in an accident in 1942, according to a Japanese group helping in the ...

Japanese prisoners of war arrived at Camp Clarinda in Iowa in early 1945, meeting a tense and hostile reception. Unlike German POWs who were integrated into some communities, Japanese prisoners ...

Dive into the gripping tale of valor and strategy as we recount the daring efforts of WW2 US pilots who faced off against a formidable Japanese battleship. Witness the intense aerial battles and ...

Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, pictured here in 2015, was the architect of a landmark Japanese apology for World War II crimes - Copyright AFP ...

During World War II, Japan’s fleet was large and qualitatively peerless, but unsupported by a broader defense-industrial base. The United States finds itself in the same position today. Talk about ...

Footage from deep in the Pacific Ocean is giving the first detailed look at three World War II aircraft carriers that sank in ...