German soldiers never set foot on the speck of land at the far end of the Aleutian Islands during World War II, but the name ...

A one-mile stream in Alaska dubbed “Nazi Creek” after it was reclaimed from the Axis Powers during World War II has finally been renamed after more than seven decades of debate.

Japan's indigenous people, the Ainu, were the earliest settlers of Hokkaido, Japan's northern island. But most travelers will not have heard of them.

From 1941 to 1945, the men who enlisted in the U.S. military were trained to be warriors. When Lee Downing joined in June ...

Researchers say rare remnants of Japanese shrine has been hiding in plain sight in popular Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens Researchers in Hong Kong have ...

For China-Japan friendship, the Japanese people must recognise that Japan was a perpetrator of aggression against China and ...

Macau saw an influx of refugees during the war, with some going on to influence all facets of life in the territory.

Here is a snippet: Yesterday marked the 70th anniversary of the Occupation and many Singaporeans must have bitter war memories. Unfortunately, relatively few Japanese of my generation or younger are ...

BEIJING, July 14 (Xinhua) -- China on Monday urged Japan to draw lessons from history, in a bid to exercise prudence in security issues as this year marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the ...

The remains of some 1,400 people sit in storage for possible identification with DNA testing. So far just six have been identified and returned to their families.