The tranquility at Fort Hunt Park today offers no hint at the clandestine goings-on there during World War II. Today’s ...

Directed by Mike Wiluan. Starring Dean Fujioka, Callum Woodhouse and Alan Maxson. SYNOPSIS: Set during WW2, a Japanese ...

Chinese Young Pioneers stand among attendees to a ceremony to mark the 88th anniversary of the start of the entire nation's ...

Almost 90 US B-29 bombers dropped about 6,000 tons of napalm on Kumagaya, Japan, on the night of August 14-15, 1945. Eighty ...

In the jungles, plains and mountains of Luzon, the U.S. Army is experimenting with 3D-printed drones, missile launchers and ...

Australia is about to spend $10 billion on a new fleet of frigates, with German and Japanese ship makers battling for the ...

As Tim Bouverie shows in his masterful new diplomatic history of the war, the prime minister was right, both in his ...

Designed to play on fears of disease, illustration by artist Frances Lee (Wismer) Baker (Blakemore) depicts a Japanese military officer carrying a bloody sword (caricature of Hideki Tojo, Prime ...

NPR's Scott Simon asks veteran career diplomat Nicholas Burns about the Trump administration's plans to downsize the State Department.

Stanley became a prisoner of war along with 80,000 other Allied fighters and civilians.

The bow of a US Navy cruiser damaged in a World War II battle in the Pacific has shone new light on one of the most remarkable stories in the service’s history. More than 80 years ago, the crew of the ...

Key Points and Summary on Midway-Class – The U.S. Navy’s Midway-class ships, commissioned just after WWII, were America’s first aircraft carriers with armored flight decks, a direct response to ...