If you want to leave the crowds of Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka behind, take a detour from "The Golden Route" and visit the ...

Lucy Benavidez Garwood was 13 years old when the Trinity atomic bomb test was detonated at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, 50 miles from her home in Tularosa, on July 16, 1945. A ...

Before and during World War II, the prison was used primarily to hold political prisoners, including government dissenters. After Japan's defeat in 1945, the Allied occupation forces took over the ...

Dachau's liberation, Joan of Arc at Orléans, Hitler's final days, LA unrest, and iconic births shaping history.

Castle Hot Springs burned to the ground and sat empty for years. That wasn't the end of the globally acclaimed Arizona resort ...

The Indian and Pacific oceans cover roughly half the globe and are dotted with strategically valuable islands. Who has what ...

Graduate students from the University of Tokyo held an exhibition in New York on Tuesday featuring a digital reproduction of the devastation caused by the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing on Hiroshima.

But in his series All Night Menu, the writer and publisher Sam Sweet offers yet a third, new form of LA history: that of the ...

A strong, 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck in Japan on Monday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 5:23 a.m. Japan time about 11 miles west of Sarabetsu, Japan, ...

A major, 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off the northeast coast of Japan on Monday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The Japan Meteorological Agency reported the quake had a ...

Texas executes convicted killer claiming innocence as cousin’s last-minute confession falls flat The Trump administration wants you to drink whole milk — here's what actual health experts want you to ...

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