Japanese soldiers entered the Pacific War believing American troops would collapse under pressure. Instead, they faced U.S.

In 1943, Japan proposed the Konishi KX-3, a gigantic flying boat designed to solve the empire’s collapsing supply lines across the Pacific. Planned to weigh over 400 tons and carry up to 1,000 troops ...

Japan helped build a new jetty at Auki Harbor, pictured above, in the Solomon Islands. The nation’s officials have welcomed investments from international partners other than China. American, ...

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Editor’s Note: Samantha Bresnahan is a supervising producer for CNN and author of the new book, “IN BLOOD, FLOWERS BLOOM: A World War II Story of Valor and Forgiveness Across Generations,” which ...

A map shows where Japan will conduct a large-scale exercise on land and in waters and airspace around the archipelagic country later this month, as the United States security ally faces growing ...

A single torpedo salvo from I-19, often called one of the most damaging in submarine warfare history, singlehandedly crippled an entire carrier task force. Commissioned in the early days of World War ...

Japan has picked a fight with China on the assumption that the United States would back it up. In the Trump era, this may have been an unwise bet. To be clear: the People’s Republic of China is an ...

As the United States rethinks its role in the international order it has championed since the end of World War II, Japan is on the frontlines of the challenge to rules-based commerce and diplomacy.

Japan is facing its most severe security environment since World War II as three potential adversaries in East Asia – China, Russia and North Korea – ramp up military activities in the region, the ...