But the Soviet Union and the Japanese had competing interests in the Far East, especially after Japan invaded Manchuria in 1932 and established the puppet state of Manchukuo. The Soviets resumed ...

For Women’s History Month, The National Interest is commencing a multi-part series honoring some of history’s most badass ...

Unlike the Japanese carrier fleet, the Kriegsmarine envisioned using the Graf Zeppelin in a support capacity for the wider ...

When Germany surrendered on May 8, 1945, Japan suddenly stood alone against the full force of the Allied powers. But what ...

Everyone should understand that if the liberal order falls, the nonproliferation regime would fall with it. And the powers ...

Though it recovered in the second half of the year, Japan’s economy barely grew in 2024 as a depreciated yen fueled inflation and strained households. By River Akira Davis and Hisako Ueno ...

By Jin Yu Young and Hisako Ueno Hisako Ueno reported from Tokyo. Japan’s largest wildfire in more than three decades was burning through a forested area of a small coastal city on Sunday after ...

There was the sheer hatred felt by many Americans for an enemy they regarded as less than human – people have occasionally ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Japan is fighting an extensive forest fire in northern Japan which has damaged dozens of homes and forced ...

In the 80 years since the U.S. attacks on Japan, no other country has used a nuclear weapon in war. That remarkable record could soon be broken and all progress lost.

If it feels like everyone you know is going to Japan right now — sort of how it felt like everyone was going to Iceland back in the 2010s — that's because they are. The iconic images of ...