Eight decades since the end of the Second World War, the US-Japan alliance continues to evolve beyond its Cold War foundations. On September 2, 1945, on the deck of USS Missouri, Imperial Japan ...

The navies of Australia, Japan, the Philippines, and the United States conducted a Maritime Cooperative Activity in the South China Sea, Apr. 7, 2024. Credit: U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication ...

TOKYO -- Japan paid tribute Friday to nearly 3 million war dead as the country marked its surrender that ended World War II 80 years ago, as concern grows about the rapidly fading memories of the ...

The recent 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender at the end of World War II inspired multiple publications on how Japan remembers its wartime history. However, there has been less said about the ...

We descended into Chibichibi Cave in southern Okinawa with the heavy feeling that this was not a site of distant history, but a warning. The cave is low enough that you have to bend forward as you ...

Introduction : transpacific cold war formations and the question of (un)redressability -- Liminal justice : Okinawa -- Liberation under siege : Japanese women -- Sovereignty, apology, forgiveness : ...

TOKYO (AP) — Senior U.S. and Japanese officials tend to shy away from anything but very careful public comments about Japan's 1941 sneak attack on U.S. forces at Pearl Harbor. So there was ...