If the Japanese Navy had one shot to crush the Allies and seize control of the Pacific, it was now or never. Vice Admiral ...

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 ...

As World War II raged on in Europe and the Far East, the American military began to seriously consider that they may soon ...

This week marks the 80th anniversary of President Harry Truman's fateful decision to drop atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (respectively, Aug. 6 and 9, 1945). To date, ...

Communist China’s president, Xi Jinping, on the 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II, on Wednesday will host two of America’s most difficult foes, President Vladimir Putin of Russia ...

The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, shocked the world. It marked the dangerous new dawn of nuclear weapons, and foreshadowed the horrific potential of World War Three should ...

This includes the US imposing a 15% tariff on nearly all imports from Japan, including its massive car industry - down from ...

Japan's new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi faces significant foreign policy challenges just days after taking office.

From Japan to Norway, probing by Russian war jets and drones is provoking a harder line by America’s allies. Mr. Brooke has ...

To date, those two bombings represent the only instances in which nuclear weapons have been deployed in war. At least 150,000 Japanese perished -- a majority of them civilians. But the bombings were ...