Warfare can be seen as an anti-war movie in some ways, and it draws inspiration from many other psychological dramas that ...

The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about "war trauma," which the Japanese government began ...

Women and dried pollock need to be beaten every three days for better taste” – so goes an old saying that was common in South ...

On April 11, 1945, a Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball during the ...

Off the coast of Japan 80 years ago, a naval captain ordered a burial at sea for a kamikaze pilot who died slamming his ...

Japan’s largest Yakuza crime syndicate has pledged to end its longstanding war with a rival faction and refrain from causing ...

Despite the successes of the I-19 in the war, Japan was never able to connect these victories with a larger strategy for ...

The U.S. Navy can learn much from the Russo-Japanese War—and from dueling interpretations of that conflict by naval theorists Alfred Thayer Mahan and Julian S. Corbett.

Jenny Chan heard frequent tales from her grandmother about the atrocities committed by the Japanese against the Chinese people during World War II. Chan thought she was delusional. "She was living in ...

TOKYO: It has been discovered that junior and senior high school students who became acquainted through online games had been committing crimes using their own advanced computer program that they ...

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails The trial of a man accused of trying to kill an ...