Dec. 23 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1620, construction began on the first permanent European settlement in New England. It was one week after the Mayflower arrived at Plymouth Harbor in ...

President Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin form a ...

The ashes of wartime Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and six other Class-A war criminals executed in Tokyo on the same day in 1948 were scattered over the Pacific Ocean, according to declassified U.S ...

Japan’s Emperor Showa pushed to be able to express his regret over World War II ... down on his anti-war stance. "I had clearly told [then-Prime Minister Hideki] Tojo at the time that it is ...