In December 1941, Imperial Japan opened the Pacific theater of World War Two with two acts of stunning shortsightedness. The attack on Pearl Harbor and the near-simultaneous invasion of the Malay ...

For years, orphans in Japan were punished just for surviving the war. They were bullied. They were called trash and left to fend for themselves on the street. Police rounded them up and threw them ...

Japanese woman Tomiko Itooka, who was believed to be the oldest person in the world, passed away at a nursing home in Japan's ...

China was weak and Japan had an interest in acquiring land for herself. Japanese negotiations to avoid war were ignored by Tsarist officials and hence the war began. Japanese troops storm a ...