Public pledges from the Asia-Pacific allies unlikely, observers say, with efforts to pressure them seen as signs of 'weakening' confidence The United States is unlikely to secure public pledges from ...

A one-mile stream in Alaska dubbed “Nazi Creek” after it was reclaimed from the Axis Powers during World War II has finally been renamed after more than seven decades of debate.

Before his time in the military, Yoshio Nakamura and his family were among roughly 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry ...

ST correspondents have shed light on a country that S’poreans admire but also share a painful wartime past with. Read more at ...

A father and son in Tokyo are continuing the centuries-old tradition of making tsukudani, a preserved Japanese food.

Visits are banned by Russia, which occupies Kunashiri, Etorofu, Shikotan, and the Habomai islets, off Hokkaido ...

The U.S. push for increased defense spending from its Asian allies mirrors the Cold War-era experience of NATO, where U.S.

Japan is the one place in the world that has felt, and personally mourned, the staggering damage of nuclear warfare. The ...

Mass layoffs: The State Department formally notified employees on Thursday that layoffs would begin “soon,” as part of a major reorganization plan unveiled in May by Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

The crude assortment of fighting tools used by the Japanese during World War II give clues of an unprepared and unmatched ...

Tatsukuma Ueno, 97, a former Japanese army pilot, took the stage at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan in Tokyo to ...