The divers are key to more than 120 years of formal relations with Australia, with the first Japanese diplomatic mission in Australia set up in Townsville in 1896 to cater for its many citizens ...

Seventy-five years ago, hundreds of interned Japanese pearl divers were deported from Australia at the end of World War Two. It largely ended a once-lucrative industry in Queensland’s Torres Strait.

More than 80 years ago, the Imperial Japanese Navy launched a devastating surprise attack against U.S. air and naval forces at Pearl Harbor ... the 1934 James Cagney movie “Here Comes the ...