NAGASAKI--Strict criteria over whether a person qualifies as a hibakusha survivor has meant that many people, through no ...

April 1945. The Pacific War had decisively turned in favour for the United States. During the waning days of that month, the ...

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

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And yet in that room the United States quietly handed an entire nation to colonial rule — and set in motion a chain of events ...

These striking essays, originally serialized on Wilson’s Substack, This Is Precious, find her moving from the vigorous hope of 2020’s This One Wild and Precious Life toward a Continue reading » 1873: ...

China has issued its first map pinpointing seabed chemical elements in the country’s eastern waters as Japan also races to tap undersea rare earth resources and deep-sea minerals. The Chinese Ministry ...

Update [Wed 8th Apr 2026, 1:30pm]: In addition to the Forza Horizon 6 map reveal below, developer Playground Games shared some gameplay from the title's prologue. Check it out above. Original Story: ...

US president Donald Trump’s threat to bomb Iran, a country of about 93 million people, “back into the Stone Ages” has special resonance in Japan. Trump’s defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, later doubled ...

Over eight decades after Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuked, Japan is preparing to help defend US. Japan is expected to formally notify Washington of its intention to join the US-led Golden Dome ...