Every August, Japanese media outlets offer specials on World War II and accounts of survivors’ wartime experiences. These features center around Aug. 15, the date when Emperor Hirohito announced ...

US Marine Corps Photo Japan’s military chiefs are warning that the country faces its most severe and complex security environment since World War II, attributing the outlook to China ...

Korea was a colony of Japan for 36 years, from 1910 to the end of World War II in 1945. However, there is a distinct lack of ...

PANO - Realizing the right foreign policy of the Party and State and promoting new positions and strength of the country, the ...

The world’s oldest person, Tomiko Itooka, died the night of Dec. 29. She died from natural causes and lived to be 116 years ...

The world's oldest person is now 116-year-old Brazilian nun Inah Canabarro Lucas, who was born 16 days after Tomiko Itooka.

A Japanese pacifist, unable to face the dire consequences of conscientious objection, is transformed by his attempts to compromise with the demands of war-time Japan.

An American aircraft carrier continued to patrol the South China Sea, and a Chinese "flattop" concluded a sea trial.

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TOKYO -- Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world's oldest ... Itooka managed the office of her husband's textile factory during World War II. She lived alone in Nara after her husband ...

Okinawa on Sunday marks the 50th anniversary of its return to Japan on May 15, 1972, which ended 27 years of U.S. rule after one of the bloodiest battles of World War II was fought on the southern ...

The United States and China appear destined for a military conflict, with bellicose rhetoric on both sides, an escalating ...