China and Japan traded sharp words over Taiwan and wartime history this week, exposing once again the deep mistrust that continues to shape relations between Asia’s two largest economies.

pt. 1. Empire: occupied territories. Korea the colony and the poet Sowŏl / David R. McCann ; Writing the colonial self: Yang Kui's texts of resistance and national identity / Angelina C. Yee ; The ...

At the same time, Japan ratcheted up the tension by moving missile systems to Yonaguni Island, just 110 kilometers (68 miles) from Taiwan. It has also restored WWII titles for military ranks which, ...

War's end -- The old Japan -- The new Japan -- Occupation diplomat -- The United States job -- Working with Macarthur -- Allied council for Japan -- War crimes trials -- Korean war -- Dismissal of ...

The recent 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender at the end of World War II inspired multiple publications on how Japan remembers its wartime history. However, there has been less said about the ...

NORFOLK, Va. — A new exhibit on the U.S. occupation of Japan after World War II opens Aug. 23 at the MacArthur Memorial, paired with a special lecture series on the war’s final weeks in the Pacific.

Eight decades since the end of the Second World War, the US-Japan alliance continues to evolve beyond its Cold War foundations. On September 2, 1945, on the deck of USS Missouri, Imperial Japan ...

In the smoldering wake of World War II, few places bore the scars of conflict like Japan. Cities lay in ruins, infrastructure crumbled, and entire populations were left homeless. Into this devastation ...

We descended into Chibichibi Cave in southern Okinawa with the heavy feeling that this was not a site of distant history, but ...