As the Pentagon laughs off claims of Iran's 'kamikaze dolphins,' a bizarre but very real Cold War history of military-trained ...

The phrase “concentration camp” is freighted with dark historical meaning. Most people hear it and instinctively think of concentration camps used by the Nazis to exterminate Jews and other minority ...

Our Journal correspondent shares her experience as a Japanese woman reporting for an American newspaper in China.

Napoleon's death, Alan Shepard's spaceflight, the Council of Europe's founding, and cultural highlights like Carnegie Hall.

Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi has traveled to the Philippines to witness an international combat drill and ...

Do not worry, I am all right,” U.S. Army Air Forces Sgt. James “Jimmy” Murray wrote to his fiancée, Donna Young, after the ...

Explore Japan’s 1947 postwar constitution that established democracy, civil rights, and pacifism, marking a key ...

Concentration camps involve the mass detention of civilians, without due process, based on identity rather than something ...

VE Day on 8 May 1945 marked the end of World War Two in Europe. Forty years later, the Queen told the BBC how she slipped out ...

South African gold mine explosion kills twelve miners; Red Army Faction founder Ulrike Meinhof is found dead in her prison ...

What the author has unearthed is the world of “Earhart hunters,” who have spent decades trying to solve the mystery.