After the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor, America needed a symbol of hope. The Doolittle Raid on Tokyo was that symbol.

However, for the two Koreas, China, Myanmar, Malaysia, and other Asian nations, it is a symbol of the war atrocities committed by Japanese forces in the past. That is why flying the flag at the ...

South Korea held a memorial ceremony for Korean forced laborers at Japan's Sado gold mines after the country boycotted a ...

Henry Diedrich poses with his memoir, “Voyages Thru Calm Yet Stormy Seas,” at his home at Rock Island’s Friendship Manor. The ...

Both believed that Japan won World War II without a doubt ... to step on a photo of Emperor Hirohito or the rising sun flag. Many of them obeyed the order but more than 150 individuals who ...

Japan faced insurmountable odds in WWII against the U.S. due to ... that flew an enemy flag. By 1945, American boats dismembered the island empire by severing the shipping lanes connecting its ...

Japan is holding a memorial ceremony on Sunday near the Sado Island Gold Mines, which were listed this summer as a UNESCO ...

The Embassy of Japan in India has raised concerns with two central ministries — the Ministry of Steel and the Ministry of Commerce and Industry — stating that Japanese steel consignments are being ...

Japan’s two largest carriers are seeing slower-than-expected recovery on their Mainland China network, echoing a sentiment made a year ago in the aftermath of the easing of Covid-19 restrictions ...

Masaki Shibata of Monash University, quantitatively tested how Japanese university students interpreted the red and yellow safety flags used on supervised Australian beaches over the summer.

About 1,500 Koreans were subjected to harsh and abusive conditions in forced labor during World War II, according to historians. Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi expressed ...