Japan held elections for its upper house, the House of Councillors, on July 20. The vote proved a challenge for the conservative ruling Liberal Democ ...

The Kremlin says it won't rule out the possibility of a meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in China later this year. Meanwhile, one person has been killed after Russia targeted Kyiv in ...

South Korea's special prosecutor is intensifying its probe into the Unification Church over allegations of financial crimes ...

Beatings happened often; there was experimentation on human prisoners with biological weapons, and forced ‘death marches’, ...

In World War II, while the Battle of the Atlantic raged on, another lesser-known but equally impactful campaign was unfolding in the Pacific. US submarines, initially not meant for commerce warfare, ...

Japanese Americans at Saturday's protest fear reopening the prison could be a repeat of what happened during World War II, when thousands of families were sent to internment camps without due process.

Now, it has been adapted into a TV series starring Jacob Elordi. But despite the touch of Hollywood glamour, the story ...

The creator of detective Erast Fandorin faces a 14-year sentence in absentia for his outspoken criticism of Russia's war and ...

On Aug 14, 1945, the retreating Japanese forces of Unit 731 fled China. But before leaving China, Unit 731 members tried to gun down all the Chinese survivors and destroy incriminating evidence of the ...

What happens when war is driven by a code that sees surrender as shameful, and mercy as weakness? The Pacific War became a theater of ideological fanaticism, where Bushido inspired both Japanese ...

The Museum of Evidence of War Crimes by Japanese Army Unit 731 in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, recently finished its 70-day redisplay project and released new evidence of atrocities during the War ...

The 30th anniversary of what is known as Europe's worst atrocity since World War Two was marked on Friday in ...