This video is best enjoyed with headphones. 🎵 The First Sino-Japanese War was the ultimate test between the respective ...

August 15th marks the 80th anniversary of Japan's unconditional surrender and the end of World War II, putting focus once again on reckoning with the country's past. The domestic debate in Japan on ...

Japan occupied all or part of over 20 countries during World War II. The U.S. and its allies liberated many of the Pacific Islands in hard-fought naval and amphibious battles before ending the war ...

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As Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru prepares for the 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II this August, the United States must, for the first time, fully recognize and respond to the ...

Wakako Kondoh Burk at bride school in Yokosuka, Japan in 1957. The American Red Cross created “Bride Schools” to teach Japanese women how to be an “American” wife and mother. (Photo courtesy of ...

Arguments about history are proliferating as the postwar order led by the United States crumbles. By Katrin Bennhold I’m the host of The World. In September, China held a military parade to ...

“I was promised cherry blossoms if I came to Tokyo,” joked Professor Peter Feaver on a chilly March Friday to a room full of alumni and two dozen traveling Duke students who had just spent a week in ...

As the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II approaches, only a few veterans of Japan’s brutal war remain. “Never die for Emperor or country,” one advised. As the 80th anniversary of the end of ...

Born from the trauma of World War II, this bow-wearing cartoon icon became a powerful tool for diplomacy, reinvention, and cultural soft power. Dressed in a kimono, Hello Kitty performs a classical ...