A reporter traveled to the corners of the country to meet six World War II veterans, who had a warning for generations to come. By Martin Fackler Reporting from Tokyo Times Insider explains who we are ...

As the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II approaches, only a few veterans of Japan’s brutal war remain. “Never die for Emperor or country,” one advised. As the 80th anniversary of the end of ...

IMAGINE a weekend outing for a Japanese family, and a tour of a warship may not come to mind. Yet thousands came to see the Ise, a light aircraft-carrier, when it moored off Sendai, on Japan’s ...

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 ...

On a rainy afternoon in 1891, five years before he would be crowned tsar of Russia, Nicholas Romanov was riding a rickshaw through the narrow streets of Otsu, Japan, when one of the policemen tasked ...

Tick. Tick. Tick. Eighty years ago this month, the doomsday clock jolted to life. Nothing was the same after Aug. 6, 1945. On that date, the first of two American atomic bombs went off in Hiroshima, ...

It’s hard to imagine what Schuylkill County families must have thought when they read the bold headline “WAR IS ON” in the Pottsville Republican on Dec. 7, 1941 – 84 years ago today. The Republican ...

Eighty years later, the scars of the last American firebombing of a Japanese city remain — on the skin of a man who still lives mere yards from where hundreds died, on the surface of a statue of a ...

David Rosen, one of the original founders of Sega Games in post-war Japan, has died at the age of 95 years old. Spokesman ...

TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Tuesday informed President Trump that she nominated him for next year’s Nobel Peace Prize — joining a growing list of world leaders. A White House ...