Guadalcanal, North Africa, Italy, Tarawa, Saipan, D-Day, Battle of the Bulge, Iwo Jima and Okinawa were all preludes to final victory. Italy and Germany were defeated. But Japan still held a massive ...

Karen Wigen is Frances and Charles Field Professor in History at Stanford University. Speaking with Srijana Mitra Das at Times Evoke, she discusses th ...

Long before there were maps or names for continents, a handful of people stood at the edge of the world. Picture them on a ...

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Some disasters don’t just destroy cities—they reshape civilizations. From volcanic eruptions that blotted out the sun to ...

A few brands claim to be the first to install a navigation system in their vehicles, with the Eunos Cosmo being the first to ...

A historian's hunch about what might lie hidden within the walls of a Japanese church in Salt Lake City led congregants to ...

Six years after a fire, restoration work was nearly completed in July on the vivid red exterior of the Seiden main hall of ...

Head to this small historic village in Fukushima Prefecture to discover an off-the-beaten-path destination where life moves ...

ISHIBA SHIGERU’S time as Japan’s prime minister is coming to an end. His party, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), is in crisis: following the departure of its long-time coalition partner, it risks ...

A moderately strong, 5.1-magnitude earthquake struck in Japan on Tuesday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 4:04 a.m. Japan time about 7 miles southwest of ...

TOKYO: Hardline conservative Sanae Takaichi was voted in by parliament as Japan's first female prime minister on Tuesday (Oct 21), emulating her hero, Britain's late leader Margaret Thatcher, after a ...