Explore a timeline of the Pacific theater, from the invasion of Saipan in the Mariana Islands of the Central Pacific to the ...

Isoroku Yamamoto was not ignorant of American power. That is what makes his story so tragic. He was one of the Japanese officers best equipped to understand the United States before the Pacific War ...

Japan occupied all or part of over 20 countries during World War II. The U.S. and its allies liberated many of the Pacific Islands in hard-fought naval and amphibious battles before ending the war ...

On May 3, 1946, at the former Army Ministry in central Tokyo, 11 international judges gathered for an extraordinary legal proceeding. The building’s auditorium had been refashioned into a courtroom, ...

In the rubble left by the firebombing of Tokyo in WWII, a 12-year-old girl who once dreamed of a life in music learns to shine shoes, fall in with a band of orphaned boys sheltering under a local ...

Who was to blame for the atrocities perpetrated on American POWs in the Philippines? While there is no easy answer to that ...

The state-sanctioned cruelty inflicted upon POWs and indigenous peoples by Japanese soldiers from the 1920s to the ’40s is told in unflinching detail by Bryan Mark Rigg in “Japan’s Holocaust: History ...

Peter Kuzinick, director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University, has described the US as “the most war-making country” in the world. Case in point is the newly-minted Japan-US-Korea ...

Over-tourism is a problem in Japan today, as sightseers push the local infrastructure to its limits. But the Land of the Rising Sun has been a popular destination for Westerners for much ...