In this week’s roundup of travel news: visiting the Japanese island of Okinawa 80 years after the World War II ...

The Japanese government passed a record defense budget in 2024, in line with its commitment to increase its defense spending ...

The soldiers served as a key part of U.S. intelligence, but nearly 50 years passed before their efforts became public.

Born from the trauma of World War II, this bow-wearing cartoon icon became a powerful tool for diplomacy, reinvention, and ...

Rick Shiomi’s new play “Secret Warriors,” now running at the History Theatre in St. Paul, explores the overlooked ...

The launch of GPT-4o inspired a rash of A.I.-generated Studio Ghibli-style images. They may bode worse for audiences than for ...

China's launches drills around Taiwan to "severely punish" the island's pro-independence leader, as the U.S. boosts its war ...

After his plane was shot down, Glenn H. Hodak was sent to a military prison in Tokyo, where he was killed by U.S. firebombing ...

The “bone digger” slides into a thin crevice on a hill in the Okinawan jungle. He’s a slight man, nimbly fitting his frame ...

R.A. Shiomi’s new play celebrates the Japanese Americans who served their nation with distinction.

The US will set up a “war-fighting headquarters” in Japan to prepare for a possible conflict with China. Pete Hegseth, the US ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has called Japan an “indispensable partner” in deterring growing Chinese assertiveness in ...