Journalist looks into crimes of the Japanese army's Unit 731 'Shonen Corps' that conducted experiments on prisoners in WWII ...

The film "Kurokawa no onnatachi" (Women of Kurokawa) is a record of 15 young unmarried Japanese women who were given as ...

On Good Friday in 1910, 29 officers of the Imperial Japanese Navy visited Freshwater at the invitation of the Queenscliff, ...

Tatsukuma Ueno, 97, a former Japanese army pilot, took the stage at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan in Tokyo to ...

The Japanese army has begun deploying its fleet of V-22 Ospreys on a newly opened permanent base in the southwest, the latest ...

Japan's imperial couple commemorated compatriots who died in internment camps after the end of World War II during the first ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito has met Mongolia's President Ukhnaa Khurelsukh during a visit aimed at strengthening ties between ...

On the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, the Japanese emperor visited Ulan Bator for the first time to pay ...

Long before the outbreak of World War 2, the Empire of Japan began an expansionist policy to stop the influence of Western ...

This week’s Time Capsule looks at a prison escape, a Japanese POW, a lightning strike, a marijuana field and a train derailment.

Iga Manjyu is special steamed bun, called manjyu, covered or wrapped with sekihan, which is sticky rice cooked with red beans ...

TOKYO -- Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako will begin an official state visit to Mongolia on Sunday, casting a spotlight on the widely forgotten detention of thousands of Japanese soldiers ...