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Japan secretly built the largest submarine of World War II, designed to carry aircraft across vast oceans. This video tells ...

In 1942, Japanese forces occupied remote islands in Alaska, bringing World War II directly onto American territory. The ...

NANJING, China, Dec 13 (Reuters) - China held a low-key memorial ceremony on Saturday for the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, with ...

As the final session began at last month's Berlin security conference, U.S. ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker said he ...

In a world beset by conflict in the Middle East and an enduring war in Ukraine, tensions are again heating up in East Asia.

World War II US Army Capt. Willibald Bianchi survived two chest wounds from Japanese gunfire, the Bataan Death March, wretched captivity in prisoner-of-war camps and the sinking of his first POW ...

China and Japan clash over 'dangerous' radar incident as Chinese jets target Japanese aircraft near Okinawa, escalating ...

Rising animosity is seen between the communist regime in Beijing and Japan’s democratic government.

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Chen Deshou, an eyewitness and survivor of the Nanjing Massacre, goes to Kumamoto, Japan in December 2014 to give testimony.

Adolf Hitler speaks at the Reichstag in Berlin, Germany, 1939. (Central Press/Hulton Archive/) When news of the Japanese ...